Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, is the inaugural Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, and the holder of a Queensland Smart State Premier fellowship.
Education
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney in 1982, before moving to University of California, Los Angeles to complete his Doctor of Philosophy under the guidance of the late Len Muscatine in 1989. His Doctor of Philosophy topic focused upon the physiology of corals and their zooxanthellae under thermal stress.
Career
He is best known for his work on climate change and coral reefs. Hoegh-Guldberg has appeared on television (including the Australian Story series profiling his life & work) and radio and maintains a blog on coral reefs, politics and the environment. He is of Danish ancestry and is a direct descendant and namesake of Ove Høegh-Guldberg, a prominent political figure in late 18th Century Denmark.
Hoegh-Guldberg is a professor at the University of Queensland.
He is a leading coral biologist whose study focuses on the impact of global warming and climate change on coral reefs e.g. coral bleaching. As of 5 October 2009, he had published 236 journal articles, 18 book chapters and been cited 3,373 times.
Professor of Marine Studies, University of Queensland Director, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland Past Director, Centre for Marine Studies, University of Queensland Past Director, Heron Island, Low Isles and Moreton Bay Research Stations Director, Stanford Australia Program Deputy Director, American Red Cross Centre for Excellence for Reef Studies Visiting Professor, Stanford University.