Hebert is an evolutionary biologist specializing in DNA-based approaches to identify species and assess their diversity, dynamics, and interactions. He is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biodiversity and director of its Centre for Biodiversity Genomics.
Hebert is an evolutionary biologist specializing in DNA-based approaches to identify species and assess their diversity, dynamics, and interactions. He is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biodiversity and director of its Centre for Biodiversity Genomics.
Hebert has 30 years of experience in leading large research programs and has raised more than $120 million to build the facilities, infrastructure, and team needed to initiate and support an internationally recognized research program in biodiversity science. Since founding the International Barcode of Life Consortium in 2010, Hebert has been its scientific director.
An Officer in the Order of Canada and Fellow of its Royal Society, Hebert received the 2018 Heineken Prize for the Environment and the 2020 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity.