Dr. Barnabas Daru
Dr. Barnabas Daru is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA. His research focuses on the integration of phylogenetic data, herbarium records and biogeography to explore the mechanistic processes underlying the origin, distribution and maintenance of biodiversity, bearing in mind how this understanding can guide real‐world conservation decisions.
Currently, he is developing a novel species distribution database, GreenMaps, which includes distribution maps for ~230,000 vascular plant species across the globe. Ultimately, GreenMaps will interface with a mobile application to enable volunteers from any region of the world to validate predicted species distributions to be used for the generation of new and improved global map of plant distributions. Dr. Daru did his PhD in Johannesburg, South Africa and a postdoc in Harvard University, USA.