Honorary Member, François has been fascinated with carnivorous plants for the last 20 years. He will share his sometimes difficult journey from travelling to study these plants in their habitat to publishing academic papers, as well as producing scientific illustrations and watercolor paintings.

He is a botanical artist, scientific illustrator and carnivorous plant taxonomist. He has studied carnivorous plants in France where he lives, the USA, his native Cambodia, as well as Vietnam, Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and the Seychelles. He has a particular interest in Nepenthes and Heliamphora pitcher plants, of which he has named several species, as well as orchids. In the course of his published work as a taxonomist, he has illustrated dozens of new species and produced many commissions for publication.