Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen is a world-leading researcher in membrane transport, microbial genomics, metagenomics, systems biology, bioinformatics and synthetic biology. He is a former ARC Laureate Fellow
Professor Paulsen is currently the Director of the $50 million ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology and the Australian Genome Foundry. Other laurels include Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Paulsen is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and Thomson Reuters has identified him as one of the world’s 3000 most influential scientific minds. He has over 350 published papers and an H index of 129.
His published work has received significant press attention, including two interviews on Channel 7 news in the last two years, as well as numerous radio and newspaper interviews, including in ABC, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
