British botanist.
Silvia Pressel is a botanist and head of the LS Algae, Fungi and Plants Division of the Natural History Museum, London. She is a joint recipient (with James Clarkson) of the Linnean Society's 2008 Irene Manton Prize for the "best thesis in botany examined for a doctorate of philosophy during a single academic year" in the United Kingdom. She completed her PhD, Experimental studies of bryophyte cell biology, conservation, physiology and systematics, at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in 2007. She was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow. She is also the recipient of the Linnea