Emma Camp
Associate Professor Emma Camp is a marine biologist and the Team Leader of the Future Reefs Team at the University of Technology Sydney. Her teams research ranges from organism scale molecular signatures to broad scale ecological interactions, and specialise in advancing technical solutions to support innovative scientific capacity to help preserve and re-build “healthy reefs”. In 2018, Emma co-founded the Coral Nurture Program, a science–tourism partnership dedicated to repopulating corals on the Great Barrier Reef.
She is recognised as a leading coral expert, with her work earning numerous prestigious awards, including being named a 2024 World Economic Forum Young Leader, receiving the 2023 WINGS Women in Discovery Award, the 2021 Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher, and being recognised as a Next Generation Leader by TIME Magazine in 2020.
Emma is also a National Geographic Explorer and Rolex Associate Laureate. She is passionate about engaging society with research, empowering communities to become part of the solutions needed to protect and restore the planet.
