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List of potential supervisors or contacts:

(Name, link, areas of interest, affiliation)

• Andrea Pieroni, https://www.unisg.it/en/docenti/andrea-pieroni/, Ethnobotany, University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Italy
• Andrew Almas, https://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/andrew-almas/, Urban forestry and landscape management, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Andrew Flachs, http://andrewflachs.com/about, Ethnobotany, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
• Anna Waldstein, https://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology-conservation/people/977/waldstein-anna, Ethnobotany, University of Kent, UK
• Aswini Pai, https://www.stlawu.edu/people/aswini-pai, Ethnobotany and ecology, St. Lawrence University, New York, USA
• Ben-Erik van Wyk, https://www.uj.ac.za/contact/Pages/Ben-Erik-van-Wyk.aspx, Ethnobotany of medicinal plants, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Bethany Elkington, https://pharmacy.uic.edu/profiles/belkin3/, Ethnobotany of medicinal plants, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
• Blair Orr, https://www.mtu.edu/forest/about/faculty-staff/faculty/orr/, Forest management and ethnobotany, Michigan Tech, USA
• Bradley Bennet, https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/profiles/bennett-bradley.html, Ethnobotany, Florida International University, USA
• Carly Ziter, https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/biology/faculty.html?fpid=carly-ziter, Urban landscape use and conservation, Concordia, Canada
• Caroline Weckerle, https://www.systbot.uzh.ch/de/Personen/ProfessorenundDozenten/CarolineWeckerle.html , Ethnobotany, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Cassandra Quave, http://etnobotanica.us/archives/author/cquave, Drug discovery and ethnobotany, Emory University, Georgia, USA
• Catherine D’Andrea, http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/faculty/dandrea.html, Paleoethnobotany, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
• Christian Vogel,  https://boku.ac.at/nas/ifoel/institutsorganisation/mitarbeiterinnen/christian-reinhard-vogl, Ethnobotany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
• Christophe Wiart, https://www.nottingham.edu.my/Science/People/christophe.wiart,Ethnobotany of medicnal plants, University of Nottingham, UK
• Chunlin Long, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chunlin-Long, Minzu University, China
• Daniel Potter, https://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/people/daniel-potter, Ethnobotany, University of California, USA
• Danielka Shebitz, https://www.kean.edu/directory/daniela-shebitz, Ethnobotany and ethnoecology, Kean University, New Jersey, USA
• Deepak Raj Pant, https://www.cdbtu.edu.np/faculty/12/dr-deepak-raj-pant, Phytochemistry of medicinal plants, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
• Denise Glover, https://www.pugetsound.edu/faculty-pages/dglover, Ethnobotany, University of Puget Sound, Washington, USA
• Elizabeth Olson, http://people.suu.edu/elizabetholson/, Ethnobotany, Southern Utah University, USA
• Gail Wagner, https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/anthropology/our_people/directory/wagner_gail.php, Enthobotany and paleoethnobotany, University of South Carolina, USA
• Helene de Wet, http://www.unizulu.ac.za/researcher/professor-helene-de-wet/, Ethnobotany, University of Zululand, South Africa
• Ina Vandebroek, https://www.nybg.org/person/ina-vandebroek/, Ethnobotany, New York Botanical Garden, USA
• Jacobus Eloff, https://www.up.ac.za/paraclinical-sciences/article/1908265/jn-eloff, Medicinal plants, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, http://anthro.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty-profiles/jade-guedes.html, Paleoethnobotany, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Jan Salick, http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/research-staff/article/510/salick-jan.aspx#..DesktopRevised_working%20copy4.doc#_Hlk164747195%201,15191,15249,0, Ethnobotany, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
• Janet Bulkan, https://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/janette-bulkan/, Aboriginal forestry, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Jillian De Gezelle, http://www.tropicalcc.org/jillian-de-gezelle, Ethnobotany, Tropical Conservation Consortium, California, USA
• Johannes van Staden, http://research.ukzn.ac.za/List-of-Top-30-Researchers/Professor-Johannes-van-Staden.aspx, Ethnobotany/ethnomedicine and biotechnology, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
• John Barnett, https://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person8871, Climate change adaptation and land use ecology, University of Melbourne, Australia
• John de la Parra, https://scholar.harvard.edu/johndelaparra/bio, Ethnobotany, Harvard University Herbarium, USA
• John Marston, http://sites.bu.edu/ealab/marston/research/, Paleoethnobotany, Boston University, USA
• John Stepp, https://anthro.ufl.edu/rstepp/, Ethnobotany, University of Florida, USA
• John Tuxill, https://fairhaven.wwu.edu/users/tuxillj, Ethnobotany, Western Washington University, USA
• Jurgen Ehlting, https://www.uvic.ca/science/biology/people/profiles/ehlting-juergen.php, Plant secondary metabolites and their applications, University of Victoria, Canada
• Kamal Mohamed, https://www.oswego.edu/biological-sciences/content/kamal-i-mohamed#, Ethnobotany, State University of New York at Oswego, uSA
• Karen McNamara, https://sees.uq.edu.au/profile/9656/karen-mcnamara, Climate change and land use, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Karioti Anastasia, https://www.pharm.auth.gr/en/faculty/1737, Chemistry of medicinal and food plants, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Kelly Bannister, http://www.polisproject.org/people/roundtable/bannister#, Ecological Governance, POLIS project on ecological governance, Canada
• Krishna Pant, https://www.cdbtu.edu.np/faculty/14/dr-krishna-pant, Medicinal and Edible plants, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
• Lorien Nesbitt, https://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/lorien-nesbitt/, Urban planning and forestry, University of British Columbia
• Łukasz Łuczaj, http://lukaszluczaj.pl/, Ethnobotany, University of Rzeszów, Poland
• Manuel Lizarralde, https://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/manuel-lizarralde/, Ethnobotany, Connecticut College, USA
• Manuel Pardo de Santayana, https://www.uam.es/ss/Satellite/Ciencias/es/1242679185786/1242680248914/persona/detallePDI/Pardo_de_Santayana,_Manuel.htm, Ethnobotany, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Maria Fadiman, http://www.geosciences.fau.edu/people/fadiman.php, Ethnobotany, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Mark Merlin, http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/people/mark-merlin/, Ethnobotany, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
• Mark Nesbitt, http://www.marknesbitt.org.uk/about-me.html, Ethnobotany, Kew Gardens, UK
• Marsha Quinlan, https://anthro.wsu.edu/faculty-and-staff/marsha-quinlan/, Ethnobotany and medical anthropology, Washington State University, USA
• Mary Cameron, https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/anthro/facultypages/cameron/, Ethnobotany of medicinal plants, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Michael Balick, https://www.nybg.org/person/michael-balick/, Ethnobotany of medicinal and food plants, New York Botanical Garden, USA
• Michael Heinrich, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/people/professor-michael-heinrich, Medicinal plants and drug discovery, University College London, USA
• Miguel Alexiades, https://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology-conservation/people/469/alexiades-miguel, Ethnobotany and environmental anthropology, University of Kent, UK
• Monika Kujawska, https://etnologia.uni.lodz.pl/pracownicy/dr-monika-kujawska/, Ethnobotany and environmental anthropology, University of Lodz, Poland
• Namrita Lall, https://www.up.ac.za/plant-and-soil-sciences/article/44825/prof-namrita-n-lall, Medicinal plants and drug discovery, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Nanci Ross, https://www.drake.edu/biology/facultystaff/drnanciross/, Ethnobotany and ethnoecology, Drake University, USA
• Nox Makunga, http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/science/botany-zoology/staff/academic-staff/nox-makunga, Drug discovery and ethnobotany of medicinal plants, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Peter Matthews, http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/research/activity/organization/staff/matthews/index, Ethnobotany, National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Japan
• Pulok Mukherjee, http://www.pulokmukherjee.in/index.html, Ethnobotany of medicinal plants and drug discovery/design, Jadavpur University, India
• Rainer Bussmann, https://iliauni.academia.edu/RainerBussmann, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
• Rajindra Puri, https://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology-conservation/people/554/puri-rajindra, Ethnobotany, University of Kent, UK
• Renata Sõukand, https://www.unive.it/data/persone/15846376/curriculum, Ethnobotany, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
• Robert Voeks, http://geography.fullerton.edu/faculty/Profile_page/Bob_Voeks.aspx, Ethnobotany, California State University, Fullerton, USA
• Robin Currey, https://www.prescott.edu/faculty-staff-directory/robin-currey, Agriculture and home gardens, Prescott College, Arizona, USA
• Rudolf Bauer, https://pharmazie.uni-graz.at/de/mitarbeiten/pharmakognosie/bauer-rudolf-univ-prof-drrernat/, Medicinal plants and drug discovery, University of Graz, Austria
• Sarah Walshaw, https://www.sfu.ca/history/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-name/sarah-walshaw.html, Ethnobotany, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Shalene Jha, https://integrativebio.utexas.edu/component/cobalt/item/7-integrative-biology/217-jha-shalene?Itemid=1224, Conservation and foraging ecology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Shanti Morell-Hart, https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/morell-hart-shanti, Paleoethnobotany, McMaster Univesity, Canada
• Sonia Peter, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sonia-Peter, The Biocultural Education and Research Programme, Barbados.
• Steven Weber, https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/weber/, Paleoethnobotany, Washington State University, USA
• Sunshine Brosi, https://www.frostburg.edu/programs/ethnobotany-program/faculty.php, Ethnobotany, Frostburg State University, Maryland, USA
• Taiye Fasola, https://sci.ui.edu.ng/content/dr-tr-fasola, Ethnobotany, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• Tamara Ticktin, http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/people/tamara-ticktin/, Conservation and resource management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
• Timothy Johns, https://www.mcgill.ca/plant/faculty/johns, Ethnobotany, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
• Tinde van Andel, https://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Tinde-prof.dr.-TR-Tinde-van-Andel.htm, Ethnobotany, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
• Thomas Carlson, https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/carlsont, Ecology and ethnobotany, University of California, Berkley, USA
• Toshiyuki Wakimoto, http://www.pharm.hokudai.ac.jp/tennen/english.html, Active substances in food and medicinal plants, Hokkaido University, Japan
• Tropical indigenous ethnobotany centre, https://www.jcu.edu.au/australian-tropical-herbarium/research-and-programs/tropical-indigenous-ethnobotany-centre-tiec, Ethnobotany of Australia, James Cook University, Australia
• Wendy Applequist, https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/research-staff/article/502/applequist-wendy-l.aspx, Ethnobotany and botanical systematics, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
• Zbyněk Polesný, https://www.ftz.czu.cz/en/r-9419-departments/r-13921-fta-research-groups/r-13926-tribe-tropical-botany-and-ethnobiology-lab#i-3ec501b562c6038d2ffabafcbac37cd3, Ethnobotany and ethnobiology, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
• Zhao Zhongzhen, http://cscm.hkbu.edu.hk/one_show.php/zy.php/coid_253.htm, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, China