Mukhlish Jamal Musa Holle is a researcher and teaching staff at the Faculty of Biology, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, currently on academic leave. His research focuses on the impacts of land-use change on ecosystem functions and invertebrate communities in human-modified tropical landscapes, with a particular focus on Sulawesi, Indonesia. He has conducted extensive fieldwork studying how agricultural expansion affects tropical forest ecosystems and their services.

Mukhlish has received numerous competitive research grants, including from the Rufford Foundation, Society for Tropical Ecology, and Nagao Environmental Foundation. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Acta Oecologica, Environmental Evidence, and Journal of Vegetation Science. He is also co-founder of KONKLUSI, an Indonesia-based conservation NGO focusing on Indonesia’s EDGE and ASAP species.

He holds a DPhil (PhD) in Biology from the University of Oxford, an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, a Master’s in Environmental Science from Hokkaido University, and a Bachelor’s in Biology from Gadjah Mada University.