Gregor Hagedorn

Gregor Hagedorn (born 1965) is a German botanist and academic director at the Natural History Museum, Berlin.

Life

Gregor Hagedorn studied biology at the University of Tübingen and at Duke University (North Carolina). Afterwards, he worked in the Department of Mycology at the University of Bayreuth until 2007. In 2007 his dissertation on "Structuring Descriptive Data of Organisms – Requirement Analysis and Information Models"was completed at the University of Bayreuth with Gerhard Rambold as supervisor.

From 1992 to 2013 he was a staff member at the Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, now Julius Kühn Institute.

Since 2013, Hagedorn has been working at the Museum of Natural History Berlin, first as Head of Digital World and Information Science (until 2016), then as Academic Director.

Between 2014 and 2018 Hagedorn was a member of the German National Council for Information Infrastructures as a representative of the scientific organisations.

Scientists for Future

Together with other scientists, Hagedorn founded the grassroots movement Scientists for Future (S4F) in March 2019.

Awards

2016: Badge of Honour by the German Phytomedical Society for his commitment to create a phytomedical wiki for phytomedical terms and definitions 2019: Best Paper Award from GAIA Verlag for the publication The concerns of the young protesters are justified. A statement by Scientists for Future 2019: Federal Sustainability Prize in the Politics category of the German Sustainability Association for Hagedorn and the Scientists For Future