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Alan William Archer
Alan W. Archer (born 1930) is a mycologist and taxonomist. He is currently (January 2021) an honorary research associate at Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. He uses chemotaxonomy as well as morphological features in taxonomy and to devise identification key, keys, most recently for the genus ''Pertusaria'' in the Australasia region. During his career he has characterised and revised over 100 fungal taxa. He is an authority on the family Graphidaceae from the Australia - Pacific region and characterised ''Carbacanthographis salazinica'' and ''Phaeographis salazinica''. He was also the first to characterise several members of the genus ''Pertusaria'', ''Pertusaria ambigua'' ''Pertusaria epacrospora'', ''Pertusaria guineabissauensis'', ''Pertusaria salazinica'', ''Pertusaria sipmanii'' and . An advanced search of the Mycobank database shows that he has authored some 101 fungi taxa, including ''Pertusaria xylophyes''.'''' (See also :Taxa named by Alan W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Research Associate
Research associates are researchers (scholars and professionals) that usually have an advanced degree beyond a Bachelor's degree such as a master's degree or a PhD. In some universities/research institutes, such as Harvard/Harvard Medical School/ Harvard School of Public Health, the candidate holds the degree of Ph.D. or possess training equivalent to that required for the Ph.D. In addition, the candidate must have demonstrated exceptional fitness in independent research. This position allows the candidate to enlarge professional network, get more experience, get publications, fellowships, grants to establish independence as a Principal Investigator (PI) or start looking for a more secure permanent job. It can advance to senior research associate (higher pay with more responsibilities equivalent to a PI), research scientist, senior research scientist, principal research scientist, and later head of research or equivalent. In contrast to a research assistant, a research associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |