Martin Breed

Martin is a scholar of restoration ecology, ecosystem health, and genomics at Flinders University. He has previously worked with the UN and WHO on the links between biodiversity and human health via the microbiome; and has served as a patron for the IUCN Species Survival Commission, and teaching amazingly resilient and optimistic students during COVID-19. He runs a close-knit research group that develops solutions to pressing global issues, including working on optimising biodiverse urban green spaces to maximise human health and biodiversity; pioneering the use of genomics to improve ecosystem restoration; and harnessing the power of plant-microbe interactions to improve ecosystem outcomes under global change.