#  Ryan J Schmidt-Knapik 

Teaching Development Fellow

 

 

 



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Ryan is a PhD candidate in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology working in the Harvard University Herbaria. He is a botanist who works at the intersection of biodiversity and human history, studying the ecology, evolution, and classification of introduced plants and the formation of natural history collections.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Group
    
     [Graduate Students](/audience/graduate-students)
- ## Role
    
     [Teaching Development Fellows](/role/teaching-development-fellows)