Danish naturalist, botanist, and curator (1961 - ).
Axel Dalberg Poulsen (7 April 1961, Holbaek, Denmark) is a Danish botanist, taxonomist and naturalist. His research interests are the flora of Denmark and its surroundings, taxonomy and evolution of gingers in a wide sense (families in the Ginger Order Zingiberales). Based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Axel specialises in the taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of the Zingiberales, his work integrates traditional field exploration with modern Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to map the evolutionary history of tropical ground herbs. Axel has been part of ten collaborative expeditions to P