Tom Wells

Tom Wells Doctoral Student on the Interdisciplinary Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership Doctoral Training Centre, Rex Richards Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU

Background

• Taxonomist (Urticaceae), Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) 11.2017-7.2018
• MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity of Plants, University of Edinburgh & RBGE 9.2016-8.2017
• Community Gardener, Brockwell Park Community Gardens 5.2015-8.2016
• Plant Records Officer, Chelsea Physic Garden 9.2013-5.2015
• Trainee Gardener, Chelsea Physic Garden 9.2012-9.2013
• BArch Architecture, University of Nottingham 9.2007-6-2010

Research Interests

• Plant Diversity, Systematics & Evolution
• Agrobiodiversity, Ethnobotany & Crop Wild Relatives

Research Projects

• 1.2019-4.2019 - Exploring evidence of hybridisation in the group of species closely related to the sweet potato - University of Oxford, Plant Sciences
• 11.2017-7.2018 - Taxonomic Revision of the genus Urera/Scepocarpus in Africa & Madagascar - RBGE
• 5.2017 - Untangling a Complex of Urticaceae Genera from the Tropics - RBGE & RBG Kew (Msc Thesis)