Else Marie Friis

Studies the history of flowering plants

Else Marie Friis is a professor emerita at the Department of Palaeobiology where she works on the history of angiosperms (flowering plants), with an emphasis on reproductive biology, phylogeny and palaeoecology, based on the study of reproductive organs (flowers, fruits, seeds, stamens, pollen) from the Cretaceous (145-65 million years ago).

Membership of other academies:

• 1990 Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  
• 1996 Royal Swedish Academy of Science
  
• 1998 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  
• 1998 Royal Physiographic Society, Lund, Sweden
  
• 2002 The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  
• 2017 America Academy of Arts and Sciences
  
• 2020 Royal Society of London