Lesley Wyborn

Lesley Wyborn is an Australian geoscientist and geoinformatics specialist, with a focus in high performance computing for geography and online analytics. She is an Adjunct Fellow at the Australian National University.

Early life and education Lesley graduated from the University of Sydney in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in geology with 1st class honours. In 1973, she completed a Diploma of Education in Science and Mathematics at the University of Canberra. In 1978, she went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in geology and geochemistry at the Australian National University.

Wyborn has played a major role in allowing geoscientists to use computers in research. She made contributions to the development of the Geoscience Markup Language (GeoSciML), which allows access to freely available geoscience data. She also led the development of the Open Geospatial Consortium She was the co-developer of the Australian Virtual Geophysics laboratory, which she worked on from 2012 to 2013.