Dave Goulson

Occupation :

Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment)

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment) at the University of Sussex. He studied biology at the University of Oxford, then completed a PhD in butterfly ecology at Oxford Brookes University under the supervision of Denis Owen.

Goulson started his academic career at Southampton University in 1995 as a lecturer in biology, where he began to research the life of bumblebees. In 2006 he transferred to the University of Stirling as Professor of Biological Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He was awarded the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC Social Innovator of the Year in 2010, the Zoological Society of London's Marsh Award for Conservation Biology in 2013 and the British Ecological Society's Public Engagement Award in 2014. In 2015, he was listed at No. 8 in BBC Wildlife magazine's list of the top 50 "Conservation Heroes". Specializing in the ecology and conservation of insects, particularly bumblebees, Goulson is the author of several books, including Bumblebees: Their Behaviour and Ecology (2003), A Sting in the Tale (2013), and over 200 peer-reviewed articles.

In 2006 he founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity that aims to reverse the decline in the bumblebee population.

Nationality : Britain

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