A huge congratulations to Prof. Jennifer McElwain, who has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society.
Prof. McElwain is Chair of Botany (1711) in School of Natural Sciences and Director of Trinity Botanic Garden. This momentous achievement marks the first time a Botanist in Ireland has received this recognition since Henry Horatio Dixon in 1930.
Prof. McElwain’s research on fossil plants has shaped our understanding of how the composition of the atmosphere, particularly the concentration of greenhouse gases, have changed over millions of years. Her work on atmospheric change associated with biotic extinction events in Earth’s deep past, particularly the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction (~200 million years ago), reframed our understanding of the contribution of climate change to plant extinction and biodiversity loss.
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