Brendan Choat is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow (2014-2018) at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University. He studies plant physiology and ecology with a focus on the impacts of climate change on native vegetation, forestry, and horticultural plants. Brendan has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and is listed in the top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers in his field according to the international ranking of publication output by Clarivate. His research has been published in top-ranked journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, Plant Physiology and New Phytologist. He obtained his PhD in the field of plant physiology from James Cook University in 2003. From 2003-2005 he worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He held a second Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis from 2005-2008. He returned to Australia in 2008 to work as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University, before moving to the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment in 2011. He is editor in chief for Prometheus Protocols and on the editorial board of the journal Plant Biology. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2010 and an ARC Future Fellowship in 2013 for his work on mapping drought response in trees.