!!!Hugh Possingham
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__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
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__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)
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Possingham_Hugh/CV]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Possingham_Hugh/Highlight]
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[Other information|User/Possingham_Hugh/OtherInformation]
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