Head, Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management (January 2017 to August 2017)

Travel grant awards: 1) AETFAT – 2014 & 2017; 2) IBC-2017 (International Botanical Congress); Evolutionary Biology Montpellier-2018

In addition to this I have the expertise in ethnobotany of useful plants (medicinal, food, and others). I did my MSc Thesis studying useful plants of the southeastern drylands of Ethiopia. How humans can benefit the best out of these useful plants is always the core issue in my research thinking.

Tigist Wondimu, Abel Gizaw, Tusiime F. M., Masao C. A., Abdi A. A., Gussarova G., Popp M., Sileshi Nemomissa, Brochmann C. (2014): Crossing barriers in an extremely fragmented system: two case studies in the afro-alpine sky island flora. Journal of Plant Systematics and Evolution 300: 415-430.

Tusiime, F. M., Abel Gizaw, Tigist Wondimu, Masao, C. A., Abdi, A. A., Muwanika, V.,  Trávníček, P. Sileshi Nemomissa, Popp, M., Eilu, G., Brochmann, C., Pimentel, M. (2017). Sweet vernal grasses (Anthoxanthum) colonized African mountains along two fronts in the Late Pliocene, followed by secondary contact, polyploidization and local extinction in the Pleistocene. Journal of Molecular Ecology 26: DOI: 10.1111/mec.14136

Abel Gizaw, Tigist Wondimu, Tusiime F. M., Masao C. A., Abdi A. A., Popp M., Ehrich D., Sileshi Nemomissa, Brochmann C. (2016). Vicariance, dispersal, and hybridization in a naturally fragmented system: the afro-alpine endemics Carex monostachya and C. runssoroensi (Cyperaceae). Journal of Alpine Botany 126:59–71.

Abel Gizaw, Brochmann C., Sileshi Nemomissa, Tigist Wondimu, Masao C. A., Tusiime F. M., Abdi A. A., Ehrich D., Oxelman B., Popp M., Dimitrov D. (2016). Colonisation and diversification in the African ‘skyislands’: insights from fossil-calibrated molecular dating of Lychnis L. (Caryophyllaceae). New Phytologist  211: 719-734.

Mistire Yifru, Tamrat Bekele, Ensermu Kelbessa, Tigist Wondimu (2015). Plant life form classification and distribution at Suba sebeta forest, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences 14: 69-84.

Masao C. A., Abel Gizaw, Pinẽiro R., Tusiime F. M., Tigist Wondimu, Abdi A. A., Popp M., Gussarova G., Lye K. A., Munishi P., Sileshi Nemomissa, Brochmann C. (2013): Phylogeographic history and taxonomy of some afro-alpine grasses assessed based on AFLPs and morphometry: Deschampsia cespitosa, D. angusta and Koeleria capensis. Journal of Alpine Botany 123: 107-122.

Zemede Asfaw and Tigist Wondimu (2007). Introduction to Ethnobiology: People and the Biota. Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa.

Tigist Wondimu and Sileshi Nemommisa (2012): Comparison of Plant Species Diversity Between the Afro-alpine zones of Bale and Simen Mountains. International Conference on Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystems Services for Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development, Haramaya University, Ethiopia. December 20-22, 2012.

Tigist Wondimu, Zemede Asfaw  and Ensermu Kelbessa (2007). Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Around ‘Dheera’ town, Arsi, Ethiopia. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 112: 152-16.

Tigist Wondimu, Zemede Asfaw  and Ensermu Kelbessa (2006): Ethnobotanical Study of Food Plants around ‘Dheeraa’ town. SINET Ethiopian Journal of Science 29: 71-80.

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