Paul David Neil Hebert OC FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian biologist. He is founder and director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of GuelphinOntario, Canada. He applied the technique invented by Carl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s[1] to arthropods and called it DNA barcoding.[2][3]
Paul D.N. Hebert
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Hebert at the NorBol symposium in Trondheim, Norway, in 2019
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| Born | Paul David Neil Hebert 1947 (age 76–77) |
| Awards | Heineken Prize (2018) Benjamin Franklin Award (2024) |
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| Doctoral advisor | John Gibson |
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| Discipline | Biology |
| Sub-discipline | Genetics |
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| Notable ideas | DNA barcoding |
Hebert holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in molecular biodiversity[4] at the University of Guelph where he is a tenured professor in the Department of Integrative Biology.[5] He is an Officer of the Order of Canada,[6]afellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and received the 2018 Heineken Prize for environmental sciences, [7] and the 2020 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity.[8]
In 2021 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).[9] Hebert also holds honorary degrees from Western University,[10] University of Windsor[11] and University of Waterloo[12] in Canada.
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