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Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium
Marc Sosef (1960--) attended his first AETFAT Congress in Malawi, in 1991. He coordinates the production of the series Flore du Gabon and Flore d'Afrique Central (Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi). His taxonomic interest is mostly in begonias and grasses. He is also intrigued by the rain forest refuge theory and involved in Species Distribution Modelling and IUCN Red Listing. He represents Meise Botanic Garden as a member of the World Flora Online consortium and has a particular interest in e-Flora’s and digitizing herbarium specimens, in the history of botanical research and in botanical nomenclature and classification.