Biennial Awards and Distinguished Fellows
At each meeting since 2022, a Biennial Award is given and a Distinguished Fellowship.
Distinguished Fellows
2024 Frietson Galis
Dr. Frietson Galis is senior researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in the Netherlands.
From the nominations: “She is the main founding member of the society, in that she came with the idea and did most of the initial organisation. … In all her functions, from president to program officer she made sure that it stuck to its original ideals: maintaining a healthy balance between its blood groups: morphologically oriented developmental biologists, developmental geneticists, phylogeneticists and evolutionary population biologists, between plant, animal and theoretical biologists, as well as between nationalities and between genders, and this for all its activities, from committees to conference symposia. …She has made highly interesting connections between physical constraints on the machinery of early developmental processes to constraints on properties of the genotype to phenotype map, to consequent properties of indirect selection patterns in high dimensional trait spaces, and from there to the conservation of various aspects of early development over evolutionary time”.
2022 Paula J. Rudall
Dr. Paula J. Rudall is a senior researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK).
From the nominations: “Dr. Rudall is a renowned plant anatomist who has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and whose knowledge of plant structures, both at the microscopic and macroscopic scale is currently unparalleled. … Dr. Rudall was for example able to make a key discovery regarding the reproductive units of a recently recognized group, the Hydatellaceae, and this discovery has been transformative in the way we now understand the early evolution of flowering plants and of the floral structure itself. … Dr. Rudall cares deeply about transmitting her knowledge to younger generations of scientists. Her book “Anatomy of flowering plants: an introduction to structure and development” first published in 1987 has rapidly become a textbook of reference and is now in its fourth edition. …Dr. Rudall has also played a central role in the EED success: she has been a council member since the society’s beginning.”
