Professor Tony O'Donnell
Dean of Sciences, University of Western Australia
Tony was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.
Tony is Dean of Sciences at the University of Western Australia. Born and educated in the UK, Tony graduated from the University of Glasgow and completed his PhD at the University of Bristol.
Before moving to Western Australia in 2008, he worked at the University of Newcastle in the Northeast of England where he held a variety of senior research and research administrative positions. Whilst at Newcastle he established and was the first Director of the multidisciplinary Institute for Research in Environment and Sustainability (IRES). IRES undertook interdisciplinary research at the interfaces between science, engineering and socioeconomics to deliver sustainable, economically viable, solutions to environmental problems.
Tony has published more than 100 research articles and is recognised internationally for his work on soils and in particular the importance of soil microorganisms in natural and managed environments. His research interests range from work on nutrient cycling in soils and waters to bioenergy and the biological conversion of municipal wastes to biogas.
