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ProfessorOve Hoegh-GuldbergProfessor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is theother Deputy Director and ProgramLeader of Program 4: Genetic, molecularand physiological processes. He is theDirector of the Centre for Marine Studiesat University of Queensland, and Directorof the Stanford-Australia Program atUQ. His research interests span a broadrange of topics including marine biology,evolution, physiology, biochemistryand molecular biology of plant-animalsymbioses, co-evolution, coral bleachingand climate change. Ove is Chair ofthe GEF/World Bank Working Group onCoral Bleaching and Related Ecologicaldisturbances, one of six expert groupswithin the IOC and World Bank CoastalProgram’s Global Coral Reef TargetedResearch and Capacity Building Project.In the area of marine symbioses, he leadsa large research group including 9 postdoctoral fellows, 13 postgraduate and 3Honours students as Senior Investigatorwith the Marine Animal and PlantSymbioses Laboratory at UQ. Ove haspublished over 90 papers, including 6 inScience or Nature.ProfessorTerry HughesProfessor Terry Hughes is the Director ofthe ARC Centre of Excellence, the Centre'sFederation Fellow (2002-2007) and ProgramLeader of Program 5: Resilience of linkedsocial-ecological systems. Terry has broadresearch interests in ecology, marinebiology and the dynamics of coral reefs.He received his doctorate in 1984 fromJohns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland, USA. From 1984-1990, he wasa Postdoctoral and Research Fellow at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara.In 1990, Terry was recruited by JCU todevelop and lead a program in coral reefecology. He was awarded a PersonalChair in 2000, and was elected a Fellowof the Australian Academy of Sciences in2001 in recognition of “a career which hassignificantly advanced the world's storeof scientific knowledge”. He has beenawarded two Federation Fellowships by theAustralian Research Council, from 2002-2012. As Centre Director, Terry providesacademic leadership and oversees thestrategic development of the Centre. Hecurrently supervises 6 graduate studentsand directs a very active field programof biogeographic-scale research in eightcountries. He has published over 80influential scientific papers on the biologyand management of coral reefs, including18 in Science or Nature.11