{"id":1106,"date":"2025-09-16T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/josep-a-rossello-new-scientific-director-of-the-marimurtra-botanical-garden\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:56:32","slug":"josep-a-rossello-new-scientific-director-of-the-marimurtra-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/en\/josep-a-rossello-new-scientific-director-of-the-marimurtra-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Josep A. Rossell\u00f3, new scientific director of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2136\" data-end=\"2504\">The <strong data-start=\"2140\" data-end=\"2171\">Marimurtra Botanical Garden<\/strong>, a botanical landmark on the <strong data-start=\"2201\" data-end=\"2216\">Costa Brava<\/strong>, has appointed the doctor in Biology <strong data-start=\"2254\" data-end=\"2275\">Josep A. Rossell\u00f3<\/strong> as its new scientific director. His mission will be to guide the scientific activities of the garden, review specialized texts, provide orientation for research projects, and set the guidelines for the new <strong data-start=\"2482\" data-end=\"2501\">Collection Plan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2506\" data-end=\"2875\">During the presentation event, Rossell\u00f3 introduced the main axes of this plan, which will define which living plants in Marimurtra will be highlighted, which will be consolidated, and which will need to be restructured. One of the most important goals is to increase the presence of <strong data-start=\"2789\" data-end=\"2809\">singular species<\/strong>, thus strengthening the garden\u2019s identity and scientific value.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2877\" data-end=\"3506\">Born in Mallorca in 1961, <strong data-start=\"2903\" data-end=\"2928\">Josep Antoni Rossell\u00f3<\/strong> is Professor of Botany at the University of Valencia and author of more than one hundred scientific articles published in international journals indexed in the <em data-start=\"3089\" data-end=\"3119\">Science Citation Index (SCI)<\/em>. He has also published in the prestigious <em data-start=\"3162\" data-end=\"3170\">Nature<\/em> a study on the genome of a gymnosperm. His career includes experience in institutions such as the <strong data-start=\"3269\" data-end=\"3306\">Royal Botanical Garden of C\u00f3rdoba<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"3312\" data-end=\"3348\">Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid<\/strong>, and the <strong data-start=\"3358\" data-end=\"3408\">Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia<\/strong>. In addition, he had already served as scientific director of Marimurtra between 2008 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3508\" data-end=\"3744\">With this appointment, the <strong data-start=\"3535\" data-end=\"3566\">Marimurtra Botanical Garden<\/strong> reinforces its vocation to be a space where <strong data-start=\"3611\" data-end=\"3659\">science, nature, and botanical dissemination<\/strong> advance together to offer a living and inspiring heritage to all its visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3746\" data-end=\"3891\">The <strong data-start=\"3753\" data-end=\"3785\">Living Plant Collection Plan<\/strong> is now available online: <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/pla-colleccio\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"3811\" data-end=\"3889\">https:\/\/marimurtra.cat\/pla-colleccio\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SYH4LmrZKQ8?si=cguhlpZvv9MOHx_G\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marimurtra Botanical Garden, a botanical landmark on the Costa Brava, has appointed the doctor in Biology Josep A. Rossell\u00f3 as its new scientific director. His mission will be to guide the scientific activities of the garden, review specialized texts, provide orientation for research projects, and set the guidelines for the new Collection Plan. 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