Lesley Wyborn is an Australian geoscientist and geoinformatics specialist, with a focus in high performance computing for geography and online analytics.
[2] Lesley graduated from the University of Sydney in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in geology with 1st class honours.
In 1978, she went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in geology and geochemistry at the Australian National University.
[3] Wyborn has played a major role in allowing geoscientists to use computers in research.
She also led the development of the Open Geospatial Consortium[4] She was the co-developer of the Australian Virtual Geophysics laboratory, which she worked on from 2012 to 2013.