Madeleine van Oppen FAA is a Dutch ecological geneticist researching at the University of Melbourne.
She has been an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow since 2018.
[1][2] She obtained her MsC in 1990 and completed her PhD cum laude on the molecular biogeography of seaweeds at the University of Groningen in 1995.
[3][4] Van Oppen began to study corals in 1997 and coral-associated microorganisms in 2000.
[8] Since 2015, she has been a professor at the School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne, and she leads the Australian Institute of Marine Science.