The Team
Daniel Margocsy
Dániel Margócsy is a professor in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Cambridge where he studies the cultural history of early modern science, medicine, and technology. He currently runs the Colonial Natures research framework at the University of Cambridge and has just completed another grant on the Histories of Plants and Histories of Humans.
Lauren Gardiner
Lauren is responsible for curating and managing the Herbarium and hosting a range of volunteers, students, and visitors from all over the world, working across a range of curation, research and digitisation projects. In recent years she has been focusing on raising awareness of the collection, improving access, establishing operational policies and procedures, and developing long-term strategies for the herbarium.
Mika Hyman
Mika is the research assistant for the project. She completed her bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature at Princeton University, before studying for a master's in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is broadly interested in plant histories and studying the intersections between material culture and natural history.
Juliet Anderson
Juliet is the digitisation and research assistant for this project. She recently graduated from the University of Cambridge, having completed a Natural Sciences degree where she specialised in plant sciences. She is particularly interested in ethnobotany, and has enjoyed looking at a huge variety of different plants as part of this project.
