Yadvinder Malhi

Biography

Yadvinder Malhi CBE FRS FBES is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford. His research explores the functioning of the biosphere and its interactions with global change, especially climate change, biodiversity loss and nature recovery. He has a particular fascination with tropical forests and has led extensive field programmes across Amazonia, Africa and Asia, while also working in ecosystems ranging from savannas and Arctic tundra to woodlands and floodplain meadows in the UK.

He founded the GEM Global Ecosystems Monitoring (GEM) network, which seeks to understand how tropical forests and other ecosystems functions. He is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery a multidisciplinary centre focused on understanding what is needed to deliver nature recovery at scale, integrating natural and social sciences to inform policy and practice. Malhi is Past-President of the British Ecological Society and was recently the Ramon Margalef Prize for Ecology for his work on ecosystem processes.