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Madeleine van Oppen is a Dutch ecological geneticist researching at the University of Melbourne. She has been an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow since 2018. She obtained her
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in 1990 and completed her
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on the molecular
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of
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s at the University of Groningen in 1995. Van Oppen began to study corals in 1997 and coral-associated microorganisms in 2000. She is an expert in reef genetics and in questions regarding coral bleaching and reef restorations. In 2005, she was awarded the
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. Since 2015, she has been a professor at the School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne, and she leads the Australian Institute of Marine Science.


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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Dutch geneticists University of Groningen alumni Academic staff of the University of Melbourne {{Netherlands-scientist-stub