Dr. Peter Reich, a renowned expert in physiology and ecology, is Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology. Reich, who has conducted global change research on plants, soils, and ecosystems across a range of scales, maintains a joint affiliation at the University of Minnesota (UMN), where he is a Regents Professor. Reich was also the Chief Scientist at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University in Australia from 2011 to 2021. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Ecological Society of America, and a BBVA Prize Laureate (BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology). He also helped launch the science education channel, MinuteEarth, which has more than 500 million views on YouTube and other platforms.