Dr. 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 fungal networks. She is the co-founder, Executive Director, and Chief Scientist of the Society of for the Protection of UndergroundNetworks (SPUN). Kiers was named by TIME100 as an emerging leader for her work decoding fungal trade patterns, and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Award in 2025.