Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (biologist)

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg in 2012
Born	(1959-09-26) 26 September 1959 (age 64) Sydney, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	University of Sydney UCLA (PhD)
Known for	Director of Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland Co-author of the IPCC 8 October 2018 Special Report on Global Warming 1.5°C Chief Scientist Advisor for Chasing Coral, a Netflix Documentary
Awards	Australian Laureate Fellowship (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	marine biology coral reefs climate change
Institutions	University of Queensland
Thesis	The effect of sudden changes in temperature, light and salinity on the population density and export of zooxanthellae from the reef corals Stylophora pistillata Esper and Seriatopora hystrix Dana (1989)

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg FAA (born 26 September 1959, in Sydney, Australia), is a biologist and climate scientist specialising in coral reefs, in particular bleaching due to global warming and climate change. He has published over 500 journal articles and been cited over 50,000 times.

He is the inaugural Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, and the holder of a Queensland Smart State Premier fellowship (2008–2013). Hoegh-Guldberg has appeared on television, including two Australian Story series profiling his life and work, and radio, and throughout his career has been an active science communicator, including writing a blog and articles for The Conversation and other media outlets.

Hoegh-Guldberg was a contributor to the influential IPCC 8 October 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C, and was a Coordinating Lead Author of the Chapter 3 of the report.