Funktion
PhD student
Institut
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich
Kontakt
Projekte
A cross-cultural comparison of the medicinal flora of Kurdish communities in Kurdistan and Baluchestan, Iran
Over my PhD project, I compare the ethnomedicinal knowledge of two Kurdish groups in Iran, each with a different historical background. One group who are originally from NW Iran and the second group who are migrated to Baluchestan in 18th century. With this resettlements, Baloch kurds were faced with a different environment and a vastly different flora, and were culturally influenced by the Baluch communities long inhabiting this region.
Fachgebiete/Forschungsinteressen
- Ethnomedicine and Ethnobotanical studies
- Paleoethnobotany
- Plant diversity
- Phylogeny of medicinal plants as a predictive tool for discovery of new drugs
- Medicinal plant chemical compound analysis
- Phytochemical studies of medicinal herbs
- Relation between loosing local languages and loosing knowledge of medicinal plants
Arbeitserfahrung
- Field researcher in Iran
- Sep 2015- Sep 2017:Lecturer at Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran Field of practical teaching: Anatomy and Morphology of Plants, Systematic Plants
Publikationen
- Maleki, T; Akhani, H., (2018). Ethnobotanical and Ethnomedicinal studies in Baluchi tribes: a case study in Mt. Taftan, southeastern Iran. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 217:163-177