Emily Nicholson

Professor in Conservation Biology School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, University of Melbourne

Professor Emily Nicholson is a conservation scientist, whose work has impacts on conservation policy and practice at global and local levels. Her research interests include biodiversity monitoring and risk assessment, conservation decision-making, and ecosystem science. She co-leads the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems thematic group in the Commission on Ecosystem Management, and is a member of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert group on indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and UN Statistics Division working groups on ecosystem accounting. She has >100 scientific publications, including in Nature and Science, cited over 6500 times, and has been awarded $9M in external competitive grants, including an ARC Future Fellowship, an ARC Discovery grant, and four ARC Linkage grants.