Professor David Lindenmayer
Australian National University
Professor David Lindenmayer is a world-leading expert in forest ecology and resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. He has maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 41 years in duration.
David is among the world's most productive and most highly-cited scientists, particularly in forest ecology and conservation biology and has published more than 1445 scientific articles including 925 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. He has also published 49 books, including many award winning textbooks and other seminal books. David Lindenmayer held a prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship from 2013-2018, where he worked on biodiversity indices, metrics and proxies. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (elected 2008), a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (elected in 2019) and Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences (elected in 2023). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2014.
David's research has been recognised through numerous awards, including the Eureka Science Prize (three times), Whitley Award (10 times), the Serventy Medal for Ornithology, and the Australian Natural History Medallion. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious Whittaker Medal from the Ecological Society of America.
"I hope to help make biodiversity conservation a mainstream issue for Australians with levels of public and private investment matched to the scale of the problem and the importance of urgent solution.," - Prof. David Lindenmayer
