Gregor Hagedorn

Gregor Hagedorn (born 1965) is a German botanist and academic director at the Natural History Museum, Berlin.[1]

Gregor Hagedorn
Hagedorn in 2019
Born1965 (age 57–58)
Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsBotanists
Institutions

Life

Gregor Hagedorn studied biology at the University of Tübingen and at Duke University (North Carolina).[3] Afterwards, he worked in the Department of Mycology at the University of Bayreuth until 2007.[4] In 2007 his dissertation on "Structuring Descriptive Data of Organisms – Requirement Analysis and Information Models" was completed at the University of Bayreuth.[5]

From 1992 to 2013 he was a staff member at the Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, now Julius Kühn Institute.[3] He played a major role in the development of a data standard for describing gender within the Taxonomic Databases Working Group.[6]

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.[7][8]

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
Detlev Ganten, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Maja Göpel, Gregor Hagedorn, Karen Helen Wiltshire and Volker Quaschning (from left to right) at the presentation of the #Scientists4Future statement on 12 March 2019 in Berlin before the Federal Press Conference

Together with other scientists, Hagedorn founded the grassroots movement Scientists for Future (S4F) in March 2019.[9][10][11] This initiative was inspired by a group of Belgian scientists who had earlier offered their support to the nascent Fridays for Future movement in January 2019 under the banner of Scientists for Climate.[12][13][14] The first statement by Scientists For Future was written by a circle of 30 people and signed by 26800 scientists in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.[14] The key authors also published a similar statement in Science with scientists from the United States, including Michael Mann and Katharine Hayhoe.[15] Hagedorn represented Scientists for Future at an environmental meeting with the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in early 2020.[16] In late‑2021, Hagedorn presented a TEDx talk in Potsdam on the topic of sustainability.[17]

Awards
  • 2016: Badge of Honour by the German Phytomedical Society for his commitment to create a phytomedical wiki for phytomedical terms and definitions [18]
  • 2019: Best Paper Award from GAIA Verlag for the publication The concerns of the young protesters are justified. A statement by Scientists for Future [19]
  • 2019: Federal Sustainability Prize in the Politics category of the German Sustainability Association for Hagedorn and the Scientists For Future [20]

Bibliography

References
  1. "Gregor Hagedorn | Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik". www.blaetter.de. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  2. International Plant Names Index.  Hagedorn.
  3. "Speaker profile – Dr. Gregor Hagedorn – Global Goals Forum". Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  4. "Abteilung Mykologie: Mitarbeiter: Gregor Hagedorn". www.mycology.uni-bayreuth.de. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  5. Hagedorn, Gregor (2007). Structuring Descriptive Data of Organisms — Requirement Analysis and Information Models (Doctoral thesis thesis) (in German). Bayreuth.
  6. "TDWG Membership 2004". Taxonomic Databases Working Group.
  7. WELT (15 March 2019). "Schulstreiks fürs Klima: Mehr Erwachsene schließen sich an". DIE WELT. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  8. "Dr. Gregor Hagedorn | Museum für Naturkunde". www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  9. Ronzheimer, Manfred (28 July 2019). "Symposium zur Nachhaltigkeit in Berlin: Dem Ausquetschen ein Ende" [Symposium on sustainability in Berlin: an end to squeezing]. Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). Berlin, Germany. ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 5 November 2021. Article describes Hagedorn as the "initiator" of Scientists for Future.
  10. Roloff, Eckart (13 April 2021). "Wie wir alle Geschichte schreiben können". spektrum.de. Retrieved 6 November 2021. In diesem Sinn entstand im März 2019 der Verbund »Scientists for Future«, den der Botaniker Gregor Hagedorn angestoßen hat. [It was with this in mind that the Scientists for Future network, initiated by botanist Gregor Hagedorn, came into being in March 2019.]
  11. Fopp, David; Alxelsson, Isabelle; Tille, Loukina (18 January 2021). Gemeinsam für die Zukunft — Fridays For Future und Scientists For Future: Vom Stockholmer Schulstreik zur weltweiten Klimabewegung [Together for the future — Fridays For Future and Scientists For Future: from Stockholm school strike to global climate movement] (in German). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8376-5555-1. See in particular chapter 2/2: doi:10.14361/9783839455555-011.
  12. Scientists for Climate (16 February 2020). Strengthen your climate ambitions! (PDF). Scientists for Climate. Retrieved 5 November 2021. Publication date from PDF metadata.
  13. Scientists for Climate. "Mission statement". Scientists for Climate. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  14. Hagedorn, Gregor; Loew, Thomas; Seneviratne, Sonia I; Lucht, Wolfgang; Beck, Marie-Luise; Hesse, Janina; Knutti, Reto; Quaschning, Volker; Schleimer, Jan-Hendrik; Mattauch, Linus; Breyer, Christian; Hübener, Heike; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Chodura, Alice; Clausen, Jens; Creutzig, Felix; Darbi, Marianne; Daub, Claus-Heinrich; Ekardt, Felix; Göpel, Maja; Judith N., Hardt; Hertin, Julia; Hickler, Thomas; Köhncke, Arnulf; Köster, Stephan; Krohmer, Julia; Kromp-Kolb, Helga; Leinfelder, Reinhold; Mederake, Linda; Neuhaus, Michael; Rahmstorf, Stefan; Schmidt, Christine; Schneider, Christoph; Schneider, Gerhard; Seppelt, Ralf; Spindler, Uli; Springmann, Marco; Staab, Katharina; Stocker, Thomas F; Steininger, Karl; Hirschhausen, Eckart von; Winter, Susanne; Wittau, Martin; Zens, Josef (10 May 2019). "The concerns of the young protesters are justified: a statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection". GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 28 (2): 79–87. doi:10.14512/gaia.28.2.3. ISSN 0940-5550. Date of acceptance given. Article also describes the launch of Scientists for Future on 12 March 2019.
  15. Hagedorn, Gregor; Kalmus, Peter; Mann, Michael; Vicca, Sara; Van den Berge, Joke; van Ypersele, Jean-Pascal; Bourg, Dominique; Rotmans, Jan; Kaaronen, Roope; Rahmstorf, Stefan; Kromp-Kolb, Helga; Kirchengast, Gottfried; Knutti, Reto; Seneviratne, Sonia I; Thalmann, Philippe; Cretney, Raven; Green, Alison; Anderson, Kevin; Hedberg, Martin; Nilsson, Douglas; Kuttner, Amita; Hayhoe, Katharine (12 April 2019). "Concerns of young protesters are justified". Science. 364 (6436): 139–140. Bibcode:2019Sci...364..139H. doi:10.1126/science.aax3807. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30975882. S2CID 109938625. Retrieved 5 November 2021. closed access
  16. Bundesarchiv (2020). "Bundesarchiv — Bilddatenbank — Photo 00443691". Bundesarchiv — Bilddatenbank. Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Retrieved 5 November 2021. Contains photograph by Jesco Denzel taken 16 January 2020 when Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with representatives from civil society and politics, including Greg Hagedorn speaking for Scientists for Future.
  17. Hagedorn, Gregor (August 2021). Raumschiff Erde — Tipps für die Besatzung [Spaceship Earth — tips for the crew] (in German). Potsdam, Germany: TEDxUniPotsdam. Retrieved 16 May 2022. Video 00:19:27. Uploaded to YouTube on 11 February 2022.
  18. "Ehrennadel: DPG e.V." plant-protection.net. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  19. www.oekom.de, oekom verlag GmbH-. "Best Paper Award | Publikationen | oekom verlag". www.oekom.de (in German). Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  20. "Bundespreis Nachhaltigkeit". Bundesvereinigung Nachhaltigkeit (in German). Retrieved 12 June 2020.

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