Sandra Diaz (photo credit: Diego Augusto Lima)
Gunnerus laureate and DKNVS member Sandra Díaz wins the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
The Tyler Prize is considered «the Nobel Prize of the Environment», and we are thrilled to announce that our Academy member and Gunnerus Award winner of 2019, Sandra Díaz, is this year’s winner, along with Eduardo Brondízio.
Díaz is a professor in ecology at Cordoba National University in Argentina. In 2019, she won the Gunnerus award in Sustainability Science for her work in sustainability.
Her work gives insight into the inseparable connection of humans with nature, focusing on plant diversity and its role in ecosystems. Furthermore, her research is characterized by interdisciplinary collaboration and has shaped the global conversation on the impact of ecology and biodiversity.
«A professor of ecology at Córdoba National University
in Argentina, and a senior member of Argentina’s National
Research Council (CONICET), Díaz has received numerous
prestigious awards and is a Martin School Fellow at Oxford
University as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board
for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and
Technology to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Together with co-laureate Eduardo Brondízio and Josef Settele,
she co-chaired the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services in 2019. Honored worldwide for her critical
contributions to biodiversity, Díaz is a member of the Royal
Society and the Academies of Sciences of Argentina, USA,
France, Norway, and Latin America.»Tyler Prize press release