TEAM
A collaboration between art and science by artist Naziha Mestaoui, and scientists Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis, Robert Guralnick, Matt Gitzendanner, Yan Wong and James Rosindell.
In partnership with OneZoom, a UK charitable incorporated organisation (non-profit)
Naziha Mestaoui
Renowned Belgian artist and architect Naziha Mestaoui passed away on April 29, 2020. Naziha was a pioneer of digital art work; she created immersive and sensory experiences by blending space, imagery and technology. Her notable environmental art work includes 1Heart 1Tree and One Tree One Planet.
Her interactive multimedia exhibits question Western culture’s disconnection with the environment and re-center nature at the heart of cultural issues. Through her art, she invites us to use technologies to reconnect with nature, creating a dynamic that can inspire our future.
One of her most recognized projects “1 Heart 1 Tree” debuted at the United Nations Climate Conference in December 2015. Mestaoui produced grand-scale “forests of light” through interactive projections of trees that spanned on the Eiffel Tower.
Mestaoui’s work has been exhibited around the globe, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Photography in Tokyo, the Contemporary Art Biennale in Sevilla, Miami Art Basel and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
Naziha was the inspiration behind the art work of One Tree One Planet. The rest of the One Tree One Planet team remain dedicated to inspiring others by continuing One Tree One Planet in memory of Naziha.
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas Soltis is a Distinguished Professor in the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics, (Soltis lab.) Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology at the University of Florida. His research interests are in plant evolution and phylogeny, an area in which he has published extensively together with his wife Pamela Soltis and together they were the joint awardees of the 2006 Asa Gray Award. They are the principal investigators in the Soltis laboratory, where they both hold the rank of Distinguished Professor and are contributing authors of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. In 2017, Dr. Soltis was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Pamela Soltis
Pamela Soltis is an American botanist.
She is a distinguished professor at the University of Florida and principal investigator of the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1986. Dr. Soltis research interests are angiosperm phylogeny, phylogeography, polyploidy, and conservation genetics. Among her most cited contributions are papers on the role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids. In 2016, Dr. Soltis was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Soltis was President of the Botanical Society of America 2007-08.
Robert Guralnick
Rob Guralnick is a biodiversity scientist who takes an integrative approach to global change biology. Although interested in theory and practice of the discipline, his work is also geared towards the mobilization and (re)-use of biodiversity records already collected such as biocollections records and data from the literature. He is a Curator of Biodiversity Informatics.
Matt Gitzendanner
Matt Gitzendanner is a Scientist at the University of Florida. He has considerable computational expertise in dealing with big data and building large trees of relationship.
About the OneZoom tree of life explorer
OneZoom is a UK charitable incorporated organisation (non-profit), which aims to provide easy access to scientific knowledge about evolution, biodiversity and conservation. A major part of its work is to maintain a scientifically accurate, educational and visually appealing record of the tree of life that is easily accessible to the public [
DNA Music by Naziha Mestaoui and Stefan Haeri
Software development by NOXAKA – Leila Aït Kaci
Apps and Back-end development, technical coordination and design by UCAYA
Tree of Life explorer software built using the OneZoom codebase with developments specific to ONE TREE, ONE PLANET by Jamie Lentin. See www.onezoom.org/about and for further acknowledgements related to the tree of life explorer, and www.onezoom.org/data_sources for detailed data sources)
