Paul D. N. Hebert

Dr. Paul D.N. Hébert Ph.D., FRSC is a Canadian biologist at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada where he is a tenured full professor. He is also a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biodiversity (Tier I) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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Hébert earned his B.Sc. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (1969) and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (1972). After his Ph.D. studies, Hébert took a Rutherford Fellowship at the University of Sydney in Australia. He returned to Canada in 1976 as a member of the biology faculty at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario where he was also Director of the Great Lakes Institute. In 1990, he relocated to the University of Guelph as Chair of the Department of Zoology, a position he held for over 10 years.

Hébert has been a visiting professor at the Australian National University, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the University of Adelaide. Although he is a recognized expert in the evolution and phylogeography of aquatic invertebrates (especially microcrustaceans), he is now best known as the father of DNA barcoding.