Academic Career
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney in 1982, before moving to UCLA to complete his PhD under the guidance of the late Len Muscatine in 1989. His PhD topic focused upon the physiology of corals and their zooxanthellae under thermal stress.
Hoegh-Guldberg is a professor at the University of Queensland. He is a leading coral biologist whose study focuses on the impact of global warming and climate change on coral reefs e.g. coral bleaching. As of 5 October 2009, he had published 236 journal articles, 18 book chapters and been cited 3,373 times.
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