Linnean Society elects Barnabas Daru as Fellow
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Daru’s election follows his publication of high-impact papers in Nature Communications and PNAS, which delineated plant distribution patterns and revealed overlooked biodiversity hotspots.
The Linnean Society of London, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious societies for the study of natural history, has elected Dr Barnabas H. Daru, Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University, as a Fellow in recognition of his major contributions to plant biogeography and biodiversity science.
Daru, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Johannesburg and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, has been celebrated for pioneering methods in large‑scale herbarium data analysis and phylogenetic modeling.
Daru’s election follows his publication of high-impact papers in Nature Communications and PNAS, which delineated plant distribution patterns and revealed overlooked biodiversity hotspots.
His PNAS article in 2024 presented a “global database of plant species native distributions,” breaking ground in macroecological informatics.
Daru said, “Being elected a Fellow is a tremendous honor. It shows the increasing importance of data‑driven approaches to understanding and protecting plant biodiversity.”
Membership in the Linnean Society is selective, reserved for researchers whose work demonstrably advances natural science.
The Society’s announcement shows Daru’s leadership in synthesizing herbarium data with phylogenetics to inform biodiversity conservation strategies worldwide.
The election further cements Daru’s reputation following his 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship award and indicates his visible role in high-level biodiversity discourse, including invited plenaries at the U.S.–UK Scientific Forum and the International Biogeography Society.
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