Richard Hobbs is currently Professor of Restoration Ecology in the School of Plant Biology at the University of Western Australia, where he holds an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship, and leads the Ecosystem Restoration Laboratory, a dynamic research group engaged in a variety of projects. Originally from Scotland, he spent 3 years in California and has been in Western Australia since 1984, working with CSIRO and at Murdoch University before joining UWA in 2009. His particular interests are in vegetation dynamics and management, invasive species, ecosystem restoration, conservation biology and landscape ecology.
He is the author of over 300 scientific publications, many magazine articles and other publications, and author/editor of 18 books. He serves or has served in executive positions in a number of learned societies and on numerous editorial boards and is currently Editor in Chief of the journal Restoration Ecology. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2004. His current research focuses on “Intervention ecology: managing ecosystems in the 21st century”. He is married to Gillian, and has two children Katie (20) and Hamish (17).