Dianne Edwards - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1961: Scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge
  
• 1961-1964: Natural Science Tripos at Cambridge University. Double First. Specialisation in Botany
  
• 1964-1967: Postgraduate Cornell and Cambridge University (PhD: Lower Devonian plants in Britain)
  
• 1968-1970: Research Fellowships NERC & Girton College
  
• 1970-present: Cardiff University Research Fellow to Distinguished Research Professor and Head of School
  
• 1994-2008:NERC - TFLS, ES, TFS Boards; Peer review College; Council
  
• 1994-2007: National Botanic Garden of Wales: Trustee
  
• 1998-2005: Member of Individual Merit Promotion Panel (IMP), Research Councils
  
• 1999-2006: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh: Trustee
  
• 2000-2006: Member of Darwin Advisory Committee (DEFRA)
  
• 2001-2007: Member of Countryside Council of Wales
  
• 2001-2002/2007-2008: Member of RAE Earth/Environmental Sciences Panel
  
• 2002-2006: Seconded to National Botanic Garden of Wales as Part-Time Interim Director
  
• 2003: Natural History Museum: Trustee
  
• 2005-2007: Royal Society Council
  
• 2010-: Leverhulme Advisory Panel
  

Associate Editor: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Palaeontographica B, Transactions of the Royal Society Edinburgh (Earth Sciences), Acta Paleobotanica; Chief editor: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 1992-2004; Palaeontology:1982-1993

Advisor for courses/posts in Oxford, Cambridge, Galway, Dublin, Cork, Edinburgh etc

Learned Societies:

• Linnean Society (Council 1989-1992, Vice-President 1990-1991, President 2012)
  
• Palaeontological Association (Council 1982-1993, President 1996-1998)
  
• Systematics Association (Council 1980-1982)
  
• Cambridge Philosophical Society
  
• Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh
  
• Learned Society of Wales (Founder Fellow, Vice-President (STEMM 2010-14))
  
• Society of Biology Fellow
  

165 publications in peer review journals
£6,515 p.a. in research funding since 2000

Current Research Topics (Collaborators in brackets):

• Silurian/Devonian mega- and mesofossils from Wales and Welsh Borderland
  
• Pridoli/Lower Devonian assemblages in China (Li Cheng-Sen)
  
• In situ and ultrastructure of early spores (J.B. Richardson)
  
• Plant/animal interactions (P. Selden)
  
• Conducting tissues in embryophytes (J. Duckett)
  
• Lichens (R. Honegger)
  
• Imaging synchrotron: Zurich (P. Donoghue)
  
• Analytical synchrotron: Berkeley (G. Cody)
  
• Geochemistry (G.Abbott)