Tinde van Andel

Tinde van Andel is a Special Professor in Biosystematics at Wageningen University & Research. Her research focuses on plant biodiversity, ethnobotany, and historical plant use, particularly in tropical regions. She has collaborated extensively across South America and Africa on projects involving landrace conservation, crop diversity, and pre-Columbian plant use.

• Key affiliation: Department of Biosystematics, Wageningen University & Research
• Active in interdisciplinary projects linking botany with cultural history and genetics

Research interests include:

• Biodiversity patterns in tropical forests
• Historical dispersal of crop species
• Documentation of traditional plant knowledge
• Genetic diversity of underutilized crops

Recent work highlights include studies on Amazonian tree functional ecology, historical tulip dispersal in Europe, and genomic tracing of Suriname Maroon rice origins. She has supervised PhD candidates in taro genetics and Maroon crop diversity.