**Michael Wink**

Michael Wink is a professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at Heidelberg University, Germany, where he has headed the Biology Department at the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology since 1989. Since October of 2019, he has been working as a senior professor. After studying biology and chemistry at the University of Bonn, he conducted research in Brunswick, Cologne, Munich and Mainz. His fields of work range from phytochemistry, medicinal and poisonous plants, ornithology and conservation to systematics, phylogeny and evolutionary research. He is author/co-author of more than 30 books and over 1000 original papers. He is a visiting professor at universities in China, Thailand, Argentina and Mexico, as well as a member of various scientific advisory boards, editor of several journals (EiC of Diversity) and the recipient of several awards.
