Hugh Possingham#
| Membership Number: | 7334 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://environment.uq.edu.au/profile/21581/hugh-possingham |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7755-996X |
| Linkedin: | https://au.linkedin.com/in/hugh-possingham-75b7b713 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Co-chair, Biodiversity Council (10%)
- 2022 - present Chief Scientist, Accounting for Nature (10%)
- 2016 - 2020 Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, global eNGO with >400 scientists
- 2015 - 2017 Director of a National Environmental Science Programme hub – the Threatened Species Recovery Hub
- 2014 - 2017 Chair in Conservation Decisions, Imperial College London (20%)
- 2011 - 2015 Director of a National Environmental Research Program hub ($3.3M per annum)
- 2011 - 2017 Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions – CEED ($2.5M per annum)
- 2006 - 2010 Director of Applied Environmental Decision Analysis Research Centre
- 2001 - 2011 Director of The Ecology Centre, The University of Queensland
- 2000 - present Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Ecology, The University of Queensland (40%)
- 1995 - 2000 Professor and Chair of Environmental Science, The University of Adelaide
- 1991 - 1995 Lecturer then Senior Lecturer, Applied Maths, The University of Adelaide
- 1989 - 1990 Postdoc, Australian National University
- 1987 - 1988 Postdoc, Stanford University
- 1984 - 1987 DPhil candidate, Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Ecological modelling
- Ecology
- Spatial planning
- Conservation biology
Honours and Awards
- 1984 Rhodes Scholarship, Australia-at-large
- 1989 Awarded a QEII Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (ARC)
- 1999 POL Eureka Prize for Environmental Research (with David Lindenmayer)
- 2000 Inaugural Fenner Medal for Plant and Animal Science (Australian Academy of Science) http://www.science.org.au/awards/fenmed.htm
- 2001 Australian Mathematics Society Medal: http://www.austms.org.au/AMSInfo/medal.html
- 2003 Awarded an Australian Professorial Fellowship by the ARC
- 2005 Elected Australian Academy of Science http://www.science.org.au/academy/fellows/2005.htm
- 2006 Federation Fellowship, ARC http://www.arc.gov.au/media/fedfellows_factsheet_06.htm
- 2009 Sherman Eureka Prize for Environmental Research (with Ian Ball and Matt Watts) http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=19333
- 2013 Awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship by the ARC
- 2013 Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Yale, http://www.yale.edu/yibs/bass.html
- 2013 First Australian elected to be an Ecological Society of America Fellow
- 2015 Doctor of Science (Honorary), The University of British Columbia
- 2016 Elected Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences (USA) – one of c500 Foreign Associates globally
- 2016 Mahathir Science Award for Tropical Natural Resources (shared)
- 2016-24 ISI Highly-cited Researcher (8 years so far), 17 highly cited papers in last 10 years (top 1%)
- 2018 Alfred Newton Lecture (British Ornithologists Union)
- 2019 Doctor of Science (Honorary), The University of Adelaide
- 2024 Ranked 16th globally by h-index in Ecology and Evolution, 1st in Asia-Pacific region https://research.com/scientists-rankings/ecology-and-evolution
- 2025 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (UK)
