Dr. Hoban has published 46 peer-reviewed scientific articles and presented his work at dozens of regional, national, and international conferences and forums. He has planned and led workshops for the Society for Conservation Biology, the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden, and a European Union consortium of conservation geneticists called ConGRESS. He is a member of the IUCN Global Tree Specialist Group and the Conservation Genetics Specialist Group, the IUCN’s SSC Post-2020 Biodiversity Targets Task Force, and GEO BON (the Group on Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network). He is also an Editor for the journal Conservation Genetics. He has contributed technical expertise to several government agencies, including helping develop a new management strategy for CapeNature in South Africa. His teaching experience includes genetics, ecology, biostatistics, and plant science, as well as mentoring for K-12 students through the program PlantingScience.org. He has also mentored several undergraduate students through guided and independent research. Before coming to the Arboretum, Dr. Hoban received a PhD in Biology from The University of Notre Dame, under the advising of forest genetics researcher Dr. Jeanne Romero-Severson. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in France and Italy, and then received a prestigious, competitive postdoctoral fellowship to work at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis in Knoxville, Tennessee.