Paul D. N. Hebert

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 Guelph in Ontario, 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 OC FRSC
Hebert at the NorBol symposium in Trondheim, Norway, in 2015
Born	Paul David Neil Hebert 1947 (age 75–76) Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Awards	Heineken Prize (2018)
Academic background
Alma mater	Queen's University University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	John Gibson
Academic work
Discipline	Biology
Sub-discipline	Genetics
Institutions	University of Windsor University of Guelph
Doctoral students	Melania Cristescu T. Ryan Gregory
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] a fellow 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.