spun team

Dr. Toby Kiers is the co-founder and Executive Director of SPUN. She is also Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the VU in Amsterdam, where her lab studies the flows of carbon and nutrients inside fungal networks. 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. She is the youngest scientist to ever win the SPINOZA prize – known as the ‘Dutch Nobel Prize’.