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Owen Atkin obtained a Bachelor of Science with Honours from The Australian National University in 1987 and a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1993. He held a European Union Postdoctoral Fellowship at Utrecht from 1993 to 1995 and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at ANU from 1996 to 1999. After that, he took a faculty position in the Biology Department at the University of York from 1999 to 2008, before returning to ANU in 2008. He was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2009 and promoted to Professor in 2010. From 2014 to 2021, he was a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Energy Biology. He served as Head of the Division of Plant Sciences at ANU from 2017 and became the Vice Chancellor's Entrepreneurial Professor in 2019. He has held various directorships, including the ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute, and has focused his research on plant physiological processes, particularly respiration. His work addresses the impact of environmental gradients on plant carbon metabolism, emphasizing the effects of temperature on leaf carbon exchange.
ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute • Canberra, Australia
Leading the institute focusing on innovative solutions in agrifood.
Plant Sciences Research School of Biology • Canberra, Australia
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