Helge Thorsten Lumbsch

Interested in lichens already as a schoolboy, he studied natural sciences at the University of Marburg, under the tutelage of Aino Henssen.After Henssen's retirement in 1990, he transferred to the University in Essen, where he worked on the Lecanora subfusca group in Australasia, a subject that was the topic of his PhD dissertation.Since 2004, Lumbsch has been a member of committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, an interdepartmental and inter-institutional graduate student training program.[2] Together with Guido Benno Feige he published two exsiccatae (collections of dried specimens), one on the Umbilicariaceae, and the other on Lecanoroid lichens.[2][4] In his 2009 survey of influential lichenologists, Ingvar Kärnefelt calls him "a leading scientist on systematics and evolution of lichenized fungi.
University of MarburgUniversity of Duisburg-EssenField Museum of Natural HistoryAuthor abbrev. (botany)lichenologistphylogenytaxonomyphylogeographylichenchemotaxonomyFrankfurtnatural sciencesAino HenssendiplomaUniversity in EssendoctorateGuido Benno FeigepostdoctoralBotanical Garden of the University of Duisburg-EssenUniversity of ChicagoInternational Association for Lichenologymolecular phylogeneticsexsiccataeUmbilicariaceaeLecanoroidIngvar KärnefeltSticta lumbschianaInternational Plant Names IndexElix, John A.Elix, J.A.Kärnefelt, Ingvar