Rebecca Nicole Johnson is an Australian scientist (geneticist) and science communicator. Since April 2015, Johnson has been Director and Chief Scientist of the Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI), Sydney, the first female to be appointed to the role since the establishment of the Australian Museum in 1827. She is also head of the Australian Museum's Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics, a wildlife forensics laboratory based at the Australian Museum. Johnson is Chief Investigator of the Koala Genome Consortium and co-leader of the Oz Mammals Genomics Framework Data Initiative. Source: Wikipedia (en)