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Professor Urmas Kõljalg, PlutoF platform, University of Tartu
Biodiversity informatics and molecular taxonomy are two main research areas of Urmas Kõljalg, professor of mycology and a director of the Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden at the Univeristy of Tartu in Estonia. During the last eighteen years Professor Kõljalg has been developing online tools for the management of open and linked biodiversity data (http://plutof.com) and for the metabarcoding of fungi (https://unite.ut.ee). Currently, he is leading Estonian research infrastructure roadmap project NATARC (http://natarc.ut.ee/en/index.php) which is developing national e-infrastructure for the natural and earth sciences.
