Toby Kiers
Dr. Toby Kiers is a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the VU in Amsterdam, where her lab studies the flows of carbon and nutrients inside mycorrhizal networks. She is the co-founder, Executive Director, and Chief Scientist of the Society of for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), an NGO mapping and advocating for the protection of the Earth’s underground fungi. Kiers was named by TIME100 as an emerging leader of for her work decoding fungal trade patterns, and an Explorer 50 for her work in mapping underground fungal systems across the Earth.