Karl Niklas

Karl J. Niklas is The Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology emeritus in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University. His research is in plant biophysics and evolution, with a particular focus on the evolution of biomechanics, complexity, and multicellularity. He has written over 480 peer-reviewed articles and six books [Plant Biomechanics 1992, Plant Allometry 1994, The Evolutionary Biology of Plants 1997, Plant Physics (co-authored with Hanns–Christof Spatz) 2012, Plant Evolution 2016, and The Origins of Life (co-authored with Thomas Owens and Randy Wayne)].  Niklas is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Advanced Study at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

More information:

• Archived lab website
• Curriculum Vitae