Career
After receiving his Ph.D.,Kirchoff joined Louisiana State University,where he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of botany in 1981–1982 and later undertook postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1982 to 1984. [1] Subsequently,he worked as a Research Associate at the Fairchild Tropical Garden from 1984 to 1986,where he continued studying tropical plant development. [1]
Kirchoff joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1986,where he served as a faculty member in the Department of Biology until his retirement. [1]
In 2013,Kirchoff founded the company Metis LLC to expand the reach of his visual learning software beyond UNCG. [2] The software has been used by students at institutions such as Charles Sturt University in Australia,North Carolina State University and others. [3] His software is now distributed by the Apereo Foundation through its Image Quiz Project. [4] [5]
He served as chair of the Botanical Society of America’s Education Committee in 1993–94 and as chair of the Developmental and Structural Section from 2011-2013. [1] [6]
From 1999 to 2007,Kirchoff served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society and from 2015 to 2019 as an editor of the International Journal of Plant Sciences . [1] [7]
From 2016 to 2022,he was a Faculty Fellow in the UNCG University Speaking Center. [8]
In 2021,his book,Presenting Science Concisely, was published. The book was favorably reviewed in the Communication Center Journal and by the European Association of Science Editors. [9] [10]
While at UNCG he also served as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California,Berkeley,as a Visiting Scientist at the South China Botanical Garden,and as a Visiting Research Scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. [4]
Kirchoff retired from UNCG and was awarded the position of Professor Emeritus in 2022. [4]
In 2023,Kirchoff was honored as an Associate of the Taos Institute for his work on the social construction of knowledge. [11]
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