Christopher Richard Dickman is an Australian ecologist specialised in the ecology of small vertebrates in Australia in general, and of marsupials in particular.

He is a professor in terrestrial ecology at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences of the University of Sydney,[1] and a co-director of its Desert Ecology Research Group.

Dickman is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science,[2] Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and fellow of the Zoological Society of India.

[3] In 2022 he was made an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

[4] He has received the Ellis Troughton Memorial Award of the Australian Mammal Society (1980),[5] the NSW Science & Engineering Award (2010),[6] the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales (2015)[7] and a gold medal from the Ecological Society of Australia (2018).