Yadvinder Malhi

Yadvinder Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery. For much of his career, he has researched the ecosystem ecology of tropical forests, starting with Amazonia and the Andes, and then expanding research across African and Asian tropical forests in subsequent decades. More recently, he has also worked in non-forest ecosystems, including tropical savannas and atoll islands, and Arctic tundra. He founded the GEM (Global Ecosystems Monitoring) network of tropical forest monitoring studies, and more recent work has focused on using ecosystem energetics to bring plants and animals into a single, multitrophic understanding. He also has a broader interest in exploring the potential for effective and socially just large-scale restoration of ecosystems. He is firmly committed to improving international equity in the practice of ecology. He is Past-President of the British Ecological Society and the ATBC, a Trustee of the Natural History Museum of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.