Else Marie Friis

Else Marie Friis (born 18 June 1947) 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.

Friis is a member of the:

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
• Royal Swedish Academy of Science
• Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden
• Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• Chinese Academy of Sciences

She has received the:

• Hans Gram Medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1985
• Nils Rosén Linné Prize in botany from the Royal Physiographic Society, Sweden in 1992
• Rolf Dahlgren Prize in botany from the Royal Physiographic Society, Sweden in 2005
• Denmarks Geology Prize 2011 with Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
• Linneus gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014
• Knight 1st Class of the Order of the Polar Star

In addition, she was named Geologist of the year in 2005 by the Swedish Association of Scientists.