Biography
Prof. Danielle (Dani) Way is a world leader on the impact of rising temperatures and CO2 concentrations on plants, with a focus on photosynthesis, respiration, water fluxes and growth. She did her PhD at the University of Toronto (2008) and a post-doc at Duke University (2008-2012) before leading labs at the University of Western Ontario in Canada (2012-2022) and the Australian National University (ANU, 2022-current). Dani and her team have published >100 peer-reviewed papers, and she has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher since 2020. She has also won numerous awards for her work on plant responses to climate change, including election to the College of the Royal Society of Canada (2018), the C.D. Nelson Award for early-career scientists from the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (2019), an NSERC McDonald Fellowship (2022) and a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (2023-2027). Dani is also the Director of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network at ANU where she leads a team of plant biologists and computer scientists to provide high throughput phenotyping capabilities to researchers.
