Lesley Wyborn

Lesley Wyborn is an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University (ANU), Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES). Her expertise spans Geochemistry, Geoinformatics, and High Performance Computing. She holds a 1 st Class Honours in Geology (University of Sydney, 1972), a Diploma in Education (University of Canberra, 1973), and a PhD in Geology and Geochemistry (ANU, 1978).

Her research focuses on geoinformatics, granite geochemistry, and mineral systems analysis. She pioneered national-scale mineral systems modeling and led Geoscience Australia’s integration with the National Computational Infrastructure at ANU. Key contributions include the Australian Geoscience Data Cube, NCI’s NERDIP platform, and the Virtual Geophysics Laboratory (VGL).

Wyborn chairs the Data in Science Committee at the Australian Academy of Science and participates in global initiatives like the OneGeochemistry project. Her awards include the US Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award (2019) and AGU Fellow status (2016). She advocates for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data standards and open science practices globally.

• Committees: AGU Data Advisory Committee, Earth and Space Science Informatics Section Executive (2010-2015), and international data interoperability projects.
• Infrastructure: Developed NCRIS-funded projects enabling distributed data workflows and high-performance computing in geosciences.
• Current Work: NCI’s National Environmental Research Data Interoperability Platform (NERDIP) and OneGeochemistry’s global geochemical data integration.