Prof. Danielle (Dani) Way is a world leader on the impact of rising temperatures and CO2 concentrations on plants, with a focus on photosynthesis, respiration, water fluxes and growth.

She did her PhD at the University of Toronto (2008) and a post-doc at Duke University (2008-2012) before leading labs at the University of Western Ontario in Canada (2012-2022) and the Australian National University (ANU, 2022-current), where she is currently the Head of Division of Plant Sciences.

Dani and her team have published >100 peer-reviewed papers, and she has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher (2020-2024). She has also won numerous awards for her work on plant responses to climate change, including election to the College of the Royal Society of Canada (2018), the C.D. Nelson Award for early-career scientists from the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (2019), an NSERC McDonald Fellowship (2022; the highest mid-career honor bestowed by Canada’s science funding agency) and a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (2023-2027). Dani is also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Change Biology (Impact Factor = 12), which publishes world-leading research on sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.