Emily NICHOLSON

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 conservation science. She co-leads the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems thematic group in the Commission on Ecosystem Management, and co-chairs the Ad Hoc Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on the global review of progress towards the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. She has >100 scientific publications, including in Nature and Science, cited over 8800 times, and has been awarded >$10M in external competitive grants, including several prestigious research fellowships including an Australia Research Council Future Fellowship.