Else Marie Friis
Else Marie Friis is a Danish botanist and paleontologist. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus University.
The daughter of Poul Friis and Marie Møller, she was born in Holstebro. She earned a Magister's degree in science and a Licentiate's degree in science from Aarhus University. Her area of interest is the reproductive biology, phylogeny and palaeoecology of flowering plants based on plant reproductive organs from the Cretaceous period.
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In addition, she was named Geologist of the year in 2005 by the Swedish Association of Scientists.
