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A. R. Hemsley

Alan Hemsley studied botany at Bedford College, London (1982–85) and
Reading (1986–87) before returning to Royal Holloway, University of
London, to study Palaeopalynology for his PhD (1990). Research into
heterospory in fossil plants took him to Montpellier, France, and eventu-
ally to Cardiff where in 1995 he was awarded a Royal Society University
Research Fellowship. Aged 36, Alan has recently co-authored a revision of
a popular botany textbook on green plant diversity. His interests still lie
principally in the study of fossil spores, particularly their evolution, wall
development, structure and chemistry. In the photograph he stands behind
his co-author Peter Griffiths.