Professor Hugh Possingham

Keynote speaker for "Conservation of Ecosystems" on Day Three of the Scientific Program.

Hugh Possingham holds the titles of Director of The Ecology Centre, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Ecology, and ARC Professional Fellow (Research) with The University of Queensland, Australia.

After attaining a Rhodes Scholarship Hugh completed his doctorate at Oxford University in 1987.

Postdoctoral research periods followed at Stanford University and ANU (as a QEII Fellow).

In 1991 he took a Lectureship in Applied Mathematics at UofA and was appointed Foundation Chair of the Department of Environmental Science in 1995.

In July 2000 Hugh escaped southern Australia to direct The Ecology Centre at The University of Queensland.

Hugh is a Federation Fellow (2006-2010) and Director of a Commonwealth Environment Research facility. The lab includes six postdoctoral researchers and fourteen PhD students working on empirical and theoretical aspects of biodiversity conservation.

For more information on Professor Hugh Possingham, please visit The University of Queensland web site at http://www.ecology.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=20910.