Rate My Professor Valery Forbes

Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, Forbes directed the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2011 to 2015, where she fostered interdisciplinary research and teaching frameworks addressing food, water, and energy challenges. She implemented a new core curriculum for life sciences, restructured graduate programs, and led strategic faculty hiring. Earlier, at Roskilde University in Denmark, she founded and chaired the Department of Environmental, Social, and Spatial Change, served as Dean of Natural Sciences, and was a member of the Danish Natural Sciences Research Council. Notable publications include 'Mechanistic Population Models for Ecological Risk Assessment and Decision Support: The Importance of Good Conceptual Model Diagrams' (2023, co-authored), 'Pop-GUIDE: Population modeling Guidance, Use, Interpretation, and Development for Ecological Risk Assessment' (2021, co-authored), and 'The need for standardization in ecological modeling for decision support: Lessons from ecological risk assessment' (2024). Among her honors are the 2018 Helmholtz International Fellowship and fellowship in the University of Minnesota Institute of the Environment. Forbes advises governments and industry on environmental risks, enhancing academic impact through leadership in interdisciplinary initiatives.