Kåre Bremer

Swedish botanist and academic (b. 1948)

Kåre Bremer
Kåre Bremer
Born	(1948-01-17) 17 January 1948 (age 76)
Nationality	Swedish
Known for	APG
Scientific career
Author abbrev. (botany)	K.Bremer

Kåre Bremer (born 17 January 1948) is a Swedish botanist and academic. He has also been Vice-Chancellor of Stockholm University.

Career

Professor Bremer received his doctorate in botany from Stockholm University in 1976, where he worked as lecturer and research assistant in the department from 1972 to 1975, and full-time from 1976. In 1979 he was appointed Docent. In 1980 he became Curator at the Museum of Natural History in Stockholm in the Department of Spermatophyte Botany. From 1985 to 1986 he was also a Research Associate and BA Krukoff Curator of African Botany at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Following this Bremer was installed as Professor of Systematic Botany at Uppsala University in 1989, where he also became head of the department from 1992 to 1999, and Dean of Biology from 1993 to 1999. From 2001 to 2004 he was Secretary for Science and Technology Studies at the Swedish Research Council. In January 2004 he left the University of Uppsala to take up a position as Rector (Vice-Chancellor) at Stockholm University on 1 February that year.^[1] He is currently professor of Systematic Botany at that university.^[2]

Personal life

He is married to his colleague, Birgitta Bremer, and they have two children.

Achievements

Professor Bremer is a board member of the Swedish Association of Universities and Institutes of Higher Education (Sveriges universitets- och högskoleförbund, SUHF) and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien, KVA).^[3] He has been a member of the Linnean Society of London since 1998. In 2006 he received the King's Medal (Hans Majestät Konungens medalj), twelfth level with the Royal Order of the Seraphim (Kungliga Serafimerorden).^[4] ^[5]

The work of the Bremers at Uppsala University became the basis for the modern system of plant taxonomy, known as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) formed by them and other international flowering plant systematists. The system was published in 1998^[6] largely based on the work of Bremer et al. at Uppsala University,^[7] and was available on the internet in 1996.^[8]

Moreover, Bremer is known for several important innovations in phylogenetics (Bremer's support ^[9]) and biogeography (ancestral areas analysis ^[10]).

Species

Two African species of the Asteraceae family have been named after him, Athanasia bremeri and Pseudoblepharispermum bremeri.

The standard author abbreviation K.Bremer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[11]

References

^ "Stockholm University:Vice-Chancellor Kåre Bremer appointed "Friend of the Students of Stockholm"". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
^ "Stockholm University: Prof Kåre Bremer". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
^ "Swedish Academy of Sciences: Kåre Bremer". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
^ Sveriges Kungahus: Medaljförläningar 2006-06-06^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Swedish Royal Court: The King's Medal 2006
^ APG (1998). "An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 85 (4): 531–553. doi:10.2307/2992015. JSTOR 2992015.
^ Bremer, K.; Bremer, B.; Thulin, M. (1995). Introduction to Phylogeny and Systematics of Flowering Plants (1 ed.). Uppsala University.
^ Bremer, K.; Bremer, B.; Thulin, M. (1996). "Classification of flowering plants". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
^ Bremer, K. (1994). Branch support and tree stability. Cladistics. 10 (3): 295–304.
^ Bremer, K. (1992). Ancestral Areas: A Cladistic Reinterpretation of the Center of Origin Concept. Systematic Biology, 41(4): 436–445.
^ International Plant Names Index. K.Bremer.