Richard Bateman (botanist)

Richard Bateman FLS FGS
Alma mater	University of London (BSc, PhD)
Awards	Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society
Scientific career
Institutions	Smithsonian Institution University of Oxford Natural History Museum Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Thesis	Palaeobotany and palaeoenvironments of Lower Carboniferous floras from two volcanigenic terrains in the Scottish Midland Valley (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Andrew C. Scott

Richard Mark Bateman (born 27 May 1958) is a British botanist and paleobotanist. He was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 1994. He was awarded a DSc from University of London in 2001 for his work on plant phylogenetics and evolution, palaeobotany and palaeoenvironments.

Richard Bateman gained a BSc in Geology in 1981 from Birkbeck, University of London and earned a doctorate in Paleobiology at University of London in 1985. From 1988-1991 he was in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution. From 1991-1994 he was a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford. He was Principal Scientific Officer at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1994-1996, then Head of Science at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1996-1999. He served as Keeper of Botany (i.e. Head of the Botany Department) at the Natural History Museum from 1999-2004, and was an Individual Merit researcher there from 2004-2006. He was Head of Policy for Biosciences Federation from 2006-2007. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

He has over 300 publications which extend from evolutionary-developmental genetics and evolutionary theory through speciation and phylogenetics of orchids to anatomical palaeobotany.

He is married to the Botanist Paula Rudall.

References

• 'BATEMAN, Richard Mark', Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 17 July 2011
• Richard Bateman, ResearchGate accessed Mar 2023