26 Facts About Sandra Knapp

Sandra Knapp is a merit researcher of the Plants Division of the Natural History Museum, London and from 2018 was the president of the Linnean Society of London.

Sandra Knapp has published several books on botanical subjects as well as a significant number of scientific articles.

Sandra Knapp is an expert in other taxa within the nightshade family, including the genus Nicotiana and the tribes Anthocercidae and Juanulloeae.

Sandra Knapp has collected plants in Central and South America for the Missouri Botanical Garden and Cornell University, among others.

Sandra Knapp has worked for the Institute for Botanical Exploration at Mississippi State University.

Since 1992, Sandra Knapp has been active as a scientific researcher in the botany department of the Natural History Museum in London.

Sandra Knapp is involved in field work and research in the herbarium.

Sandra Knapp contributes to taxonomic research of the Geminta and Dulcamaroid clades, in particular in the context of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory project Solanum, a worldwide research project to map nightshades.

Sandra Knapp participates in a collaborative project to clarify the genomic evolution of Nicotiana.

Sandra Knapp is active in involving the private sector in the implementation of the biodiversity treaty in Gran Chaco.

Sandra Knapp is an editor of the Flora Mesoamericana publication series, a project aimed at mapping as many plants as possible found in Mesoamerica.

Sandra Knapp has authored several books on botany or botanical exploration and has written over 200 peer reviewed scientific articles.

Sandra Knapp has published numerous botanical names, in particular taxa within the Nightshade family.

Sandra Knapp has published three botanical names of passion flowers together with lepidopterist James Mallet.

Sandra Knapp is a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Innovator of the Year panel, a member of the Shenzhen Declaration for Plant Sciences Committee, and a member of the National Geographic Grants Committee.

In May 2017 Sandra Knapp became the president-elect of the Linnean Society of London, and in May 2018 succeeded Prof.

Sandra Knapp is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In October 1999, Sandra Knapp discussed her book Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Wallace in the Amazon on the BBC World Service's Science in Action.

Sandra Knapp was an interviewed guest on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves in July 2013 in a segment about Alfred Russel Wallace.

Sandra Knapp appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time in May 2014 to explain photosynthesis.

In October 2014 Sandra Knapp was a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity.

In July 2017, Sandra Knapp was a guest on the BBC World Service's The Forum, where she discussed Carl Linnaeus.

In October 2019 Sandra Knapp appeared on In Our Time, this time to talk about hybrids.

Also in 2022 Sandra Knapp was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Sandra Knapp was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to botany and the public understanding of science.

In 2023 Sandra Knapp was awarded the Engler Medal in Gold by the International Association for Plant Taxonomy in recognition for her outstanding lifetime contribution to taxonomy and systematics of plants, algae, or fungi.