Prof. Dianne Edwards

• BA Girton College Cambridge

• PhD Cambridge University

• NERC and Girton College Research fellow

• Research fellow, lecturer, senior lecturer Reader, Professor at Cardiff University

• Head of School of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Distinguished Research Professor (current)

• Edwards, D. and Kenrick, P. 2015. The early evolution of land plants, from fossils to genomics: a commentary on Lang (1937) 'On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B – Biological Sciences 370(1666), article number: 20140343. (10.1098/rstb.2014.0343)

• Edwards, D. 2015. A palaeobotanical pot-pourri. Palaeontology 58(1), pp. 1-3. (10.1111/pala.12143)

• Edwards, D., Cherns, L. and Raven, A. J. 2015. Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid- Palaeozoic times?. Palaeontology

• Morris, J. L. and Edwards, D. 2014. An analysis of vegetational change in the Lower Devonian: New data from the Lochkovian of the Welsh Borderland, U.K.. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 211, pp. 28-54. (10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.09.006)

• Edwards, D. et al. 2014. Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras. New Phytologist 202(1), pp. 50-78. (10.1111/nph.12645)

• Life on land before vascular plants.

• Nature and affinities of earliest vascular plants

• Immediate past president Linnean Society of London

• past president -Life member Palaeontological Association

• Corresponding member American Journal of Botany

• Leverhume Trust scientific advisor

• Occasional radio and television

• ScD Cantab; honorary degrees at Uppsala and Dublin Universities.

• Hon Fellow Swansea University.

• Fellow Royal Society of London, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Learned Society Of Wales.

• Medals Geological and Linnean Societies, Palaeontological Association.

• Commander of the British Empire CBE

Additional interests

• Botanic Gardens, Opera, Mozart, Gardening

Other activities and achievements/family

• One son. One grandson

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