Andrew Gonzalez
2026 NOMIS Awardee
Professor and Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
About Andrew Gonzalez
A pioneering ecologist and conservation scientist, Andrew Gonzalez’s groundbreaking research has transformed our understanding of the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss, focusing on how ecological connectivity, rapid evolution and environmental change shape the persistence, functioning and resilience of ecosystems. He showed that biodiversity, stability, adaptation and persistence are intertwined and fundamental to understanding the structure of the living world, and that ecological systems persist not only because of what happens locally, but also because populations, communities and ecosystems are connected across a great range of scales of time and space.
Gonzalez earned his BSc in zoology from the University of Nottingham, followed by a PhD in ecology from Imperial College London in 1998. He was an assistant professor at the University of Paris VI before joining McGill University in 2003, where he now holds the Liber Ero Chair in Conservation Biology.
Andrew Gonzalez lecture | A Mesoscale Theory of the Biosphere
