The CPS board

Active board members

Thomas Denk, Sweden, president

Senior curator at the department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Main areas of Work: Palynology and Paleobotany of the Northern Hemisphere in the Cenozoic
Expertise: Palynology & Paleobotany, Cenozoic

Christian Pott, Germany, secretary

PhD 2007 in Palaeobotany, University of Münster
Since 2017: Senior curator of palaeobotany at the LWL-Museum of Natural History, Münster, Germany
2008–2017: Researcher at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Palaeobiology dept
Mesozoic palaeobotany; biology/ecology, evolution, biogeography and systematics of Bennettitales and Nilssoniales
Expertise: plant architecture; ecosystem and whole-plant reconstructions in Palaeozoic and Mesozoic vegetation

Sofie Lindström, Sweden, treasurer

Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
State Geologist at the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU)
Graduated from Lund University 1989/1994
Main areas of work: Late Palaeozoic-Mesozoic palynology, palynostratigraphy, basin development, correlations, ecosystem change, environmental stress
Expertise: sedimentary systems, CCS, geoenergy

David Cantrill, Australia, Grana's Editor in Chief

Julia Gravendyck, Germany, IFPS Liaison

Lecturer for Sytematic Botany, University of Bonn
Vice-Rapporteur for the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
PhD 2021, Freie Universität Berlin & Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Germany
Main areas of work: palynology & paleoecology of the Triassic–Cretaceous; evolution of earliest angiosperms
Expertise: Mesozoic paleobotany and palynology; taxonomy & nomenclature

Niina Kuosmanen, Finland, board member

University lecturer at the Department of Geosciences and Geography in University of Helsinki
PhD 2016 (in paleoecology), Department of Geosciences and Geography in University of Helsinki
Main areas of work: teaching and supervising in environmental geology and hydrogeology
Expertise: paleoecology, forest disturbances, long-term environmental change, boreal peatlands, hydrogeology

Kasia K. Śliwińska, Denmark, board member

PhD (2011) from Aarhus University
Senior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) since 2019, and Researcher at University of Oslo since 2025
Main research areas: Paleogene–Neogene climate history of the North Atlantic–Arctic region; Early Cretaceous dinocyst biostratigraphy of the Arctic region
Expertise: biostratigraphy, marine palynology, palynofacies, digital palynology, organic geochemical biomarkers

Anne E. Bjune, Norway, substitute

Dr scient/PhD: Palaeoecologist/Biologist
Graduated from University of Bergen, Norway, 2004
Senior researcher at Uni Research Climate, Bergen, Norway, from 2004-2016
2016 - 2018 Associate Professor at University of Bergen
Since August 2018 Professor at University of Bergen
Main topics: Holocene pollen and plant microfossils, climate-, vegetation-, and tree-line-history, land use and human impact, modern pollen deposition and its relation to current vegetation
Expertise: biology, palaeoecology, Quaternary vegetation and climate history, research and teaching

Sissel Kvernes, Norway, substitute

Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen, Denmark, substitute