Stephen J. Simpson

Stephen J. Simpson did his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, majoring in entomology, before undertaking his Ph.D. degree at the University of London, UK. He then moved to the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, before moving to the Zoology Department at Oxford. He began a project to explore nutrient balancing in insects—a project which has continued ever since and which has resulted in a set of nutritional models that are currently being applied to many other animals, including humans. In 1986, he was appointed a university Lecturer in zoology and a Curator of entomology at the University Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, and then in 1998 a Professor of the hope entomological collections, University of Oxford. During the early 1990s, he established a research program on swarming in locusts, which continues to this day. He has been a Guest Professor on insect behavior at the University of Basel (1990), a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona (1999), a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin (2002-2003), and currently (since 2005) an ARC Federation Fellow and a Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2007.

Biography Updated on 3 June 2010

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