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interests and expertise: nature conservation, environmental policy and law, river restoration, writing/editing, presentations, European butterflies, European birds

profession (current): retired profession (previous): Nature Conservancy Council - GB/ English Nature/Natural England (Senior Conservation Adviser, 1975-2009)

Name: Franco Pedrotti

interests and expertise: nature conservation, plant sociology and geobotany, protected areas, publishing

profession (current): Professor Emeritus, University of Camerino

profession (previous): lecturer and professor - Milan, Padova, Catania, Ferrara and Camerino

Name: Milan Orožen Adamič

interests and expertise: natural disasters, thematic cartography and geographical names, nature conservation, especially underwater conservation, environmental policy and law, writing/editing

profession (current): retired

profession (previous): Researcher at the Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Ljubljana, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Republic of Croatia (2005-09)

Name: Willem B. Van Muiswinkel

interests and expertise: Cell Biology in general. Fish immunology, fish vaccination and the effect of antibiotics, genetic selection, pollutants and stress on fish health

profession (current): retired

profession (previous): Professor of Cell Biology & Immunology, Wageningen University (NL);

Dean of Biology, Wageningen University; visiting professor of universities at Guelph (Canada), Corvallis (USA) and Charlotte Town (Canada)

Name: Lutz Katzschner (Contact)

interests and expertise: conservation, meteorology, urban climate, climate adaptation, environmental education

profession (current): Professor in the Department of Environmental Meteorology, University of Kassel; Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University, Hong Kong

Name: Gerhard Franz Walter interests and expertise: chronic intoxication by environmental pollution (e.g. arsenicosis) and related nervous diseases; human pathology and neuropathology

profession (current): Dean, PhD-Programme Clinical Neurosciences, International Neuroscience Institute Hannover, Germany

profession (previous): Founding Rector, Graz Medical University, Austria; Director, Institute of Neuropathology, Hannover Medical School, Germany

More Taraxacum Club members (place of residence):

Derek Davis (Dartmouth, NS, Canada)*

Antje Kohler (Schwaigern, Germany)*

Fred van der Vegte (Voorst, Netherlands)*

Bo Landin (Heber City, Utah, USA)*

Marc Pallemaerts (Brussels, Belgium)*

Jan Cerovský (Praha, Czech Republic)

Henry Makowski (Hamburg, Germany)

Desh Bandhu (Delhi, India)

Frank Allmer (Luneburg, Germany)

Pieter Ketner (Wageningen, Netherlands)

Jan Dobrowolski (Krakow, Poland)

*past President of IYF

Name: Hein van Bohemen

interests and expertise: nature conservation; ecology, landscape ecology, urban ecology, eco-engineering in relation to civil engineering

profession (current): Lecturer p/t on ecological engineering at the Materials Science and Sustainable Construction Section of the Delft University of Technology; Director of Bohemen Eco-Engineering consultancy

Name: Hans-Joachim Grommelt

interests and expertise: nature conservation, environmental policy and law, endocrine disruptors in aquatic systems, pharmaceutical residues in aquatic systems

profession (current): retired

profession (previous): head of the department for the environment and nature of the city of Giessen, Germany (1987 - 2013)

Name: Jacques de Smidt

interests and expertise: Ecology, nature conservation, environmental problems, ecological agriculture, nature in the city

profession (current): retired

profession (previous): University docent vegetation science, landscape ecology, environmental science, environmental impact assessment 1961/1997. Deputy chairman of the Dutch Commission on Environmental Impact Assessment 1986/2002. Chairman of Technical Advisory Commission on Watersafety.