Anne Dubéarnès
Anne Dubéarnès is a tropical botanist specializing in the taxonomy and systematics of the Primulaceae family. She discovered the world of herbariums more than thirteen years ago and has devoted herself to it ever since. After earning a master’s degree at the Kew Gardens Herbarium and a Ph.D. at the Trinity College Dublin Herbarium, her career path led her to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where she contributed to a macroecology project using machine learning to assess the risk of extinction for vascular plants on a global scale. She then continued her research at the University of Cambridge before joining the Naturéum in 2024.
Her research focuses on Embelia Burm.f., a genus of lianas found primarily in Southeast Asia and tropical Africa, whose taxonomy and phylogeny remain largely to be clarified. She is working on revising this genus by integrating morphology, herbarium specimen analysis, field observations, and molecular phylogenetics. Her current projects include a revision of the species found in Malaysia and a floristic study for the Flora of Gabon. Beyond her fascination with these plants and her desire to shed light on their complexity, her goal is to provide reliable and up-to-date identification tools to facilitate their conservation in the field.
She is also interested in natural history collections, their history, their conservation, and their role in advancing scientific knowledge.