Professor Yadvinder Malhi CBE FRS
Yadvinder Malhi CBE FRS is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, and Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College.
His research focuses on interactions between the biosphere and climate change, including how the biosphere can be protected, stewarded and restored to enhance climate change resilience.
Previously held positions:
- Chair of the recent Royal Society Programme on Biodiversity
- Trustee of the Natural History Museum of London (current)
- President-Elect of the British Ecological Society (current)
- Member of the Environment Council of the First Minister of Scotland (current)
Awards and nominations:
- Marsh Award for Climate Change of the British Ecological Society (2016)
- Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (2018)
- Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology
- Appointed CBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to ecosystem science
Recent publications:
- Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change (book, 2005)
- Measuring tropical forest carbon allocation and cycling