DAVID TILMAN is Regents' Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota. His research explores how to sustainably meet human needs for energy, food and ecosystem services.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a J. S. Guggenheim Fellow. His is the recipient of the Ecological Society of America’s Cooper Award and its MacArthur Award, and the Botanical Society of America’s Centennial Award and the Princeton Environmental Prize.
He has written two books, edited three more, and published more than 200 scientific papers, including more than 30 in Science, Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. For the past 18 years, the Institute for Scientific Information has ranked him as the world’s most highly cited environmental scientist. In 2008, he received the International Prize for Biology.