Professor Craig Moritz is currently an ARC Laureate Fellow of the Australian National University, is famous for his outstanding research contributions to evolutional biology, particularly concerning speciation and biogeography. Although his research is primarily based in natural populations, he has repeatedly developed new statistical and molecular methods, and developed approaches to improve our ability to conserve communities, populations and species. His research has been cited more than 14000 times (currently >1600 times per annum) and his H score is 56.