Monica Gagliano

Monica Gagliano
Alma materJames Cook University
RegionPlant cognition
SchoolEvolutionary ecology
Phenomenology
Websitewww.monicagagliano.com

Monica Gagliano (born 1976)[1] is an ecologist known for expanding the field of biological research into the intelligence of plants.

Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in the field of evolutionary ecology at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia, where she directs the Biological Intelligence lab.[2] She is a former fellow of the Australian Research Council.[3] Through her research with plants, she “has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory) in plants.”[2] She has worked to expand how the public view plants, and all of nature, in respect of their subjectivity and sentience.[4][5][6] Gagliano grew up in northern Italy.[7]

  1. ^ "Thus Spoke the Plant". LC Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Associate Professor Monica Gagliano". Directory. Southern Cross University. 2 September 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Monica Gagliano". North Atlantic Books. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Monica Gagliano". ICE: Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth. Dartmouth College. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Monica Gagliano: Plant Intelligence and the Importance of Imagination In Science, 2018". Bioneers. 15 June 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Monica Gagliano: How 'heretical' science revealed the intelligence of Nature". TEDxSydney 2021. TEDxTalks. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  7. ^ Shechet, Ellie (26 August 2019). "Do Plants Have Something to Say?". New York Times. Retrieved 1 July 2023.