ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Götz Palfner

Biologist; special disciplines mycology and mycorrhiza;

Born 1963 in Bremen, Germany, currently living and working in Concepción, Chile;

1988 entering carreer of biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany;

1991-92 undergraduate student of tropical ecology at the University of Costa Rica, San José;

1994 graduation in Biology (Systematic Botany, Zoology and Biochemistry) at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, thesis about ectomycorrhizae of Quercus in Slovenia at the labs of Reinhard Agerer, Munich, Germany and Hojka Kraigher, Ljubljana, Slovenia;

1995-2001 PhD about ectomycorrhizae of Nothofagus from Chile at the labs of Reinhard Agerer, Munich, Germany and Roberto Godoy, Valdivia, Chile;

2001-2003 Postdoc at the University of Sheffield, UK, lab of David J. Read, project about ectomycorrhizal diversity in European forest chronosequences (FORCAST);

2003-2004 invited professor at the La Frontera University, Temuco, Chile, research on native fungi, mycology classes for postgraduate students;

Since 2004 working at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile; teaching of mycology, diversity studies of fungi in native forest ecosystems and projects about ectomycorrhizae of native and introduced trees.

E-mail address: goetz.palfner@gmail.com