Ben C. Sheldon is the Luc Hoffmann Chair in Field Ornithology and Director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology of the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology. He was Head of the Department of Zoology between 2016 and 2021.
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| Awards | Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (2004)
Linnean Medal (2020) Academia Europaea (2020) Fellow of the Royal Society (2022) |
| Website | https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-ben-sheldon  |
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His research addresses causes and consequences of individual variation in wild populations, particularly of birds.
He was awarded the 2020 Linnean Medal for "his service to science in the field of Zoology", and elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.
Education and career
editSheldon obtained his BA in Natural Sciences (Part II Zoology) at University of Cambridge, where lectures from Prof Nick Davies in Behavioural Ecology were particularly influential, and his PhD in Zoology from the University of Sheffield, under the supervision of Prof Tim Birkhead. He held a series of postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Uppsala and University of Edinburgh, before moving to the University of Oxford to hold a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2000.[1]
Sheldon was appointed Head of the Edward Grey Institute in 2002, following the retirement of Prof Chris Perrins and elected as the first holder of the Luc Hoffmann Chair in Field Ornithology in 2004. He was Associate Head of Department from 2011 to 2016, and Head of Department from 2016 to 2021.
Awards and honours
edit- 1997 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Outstanding New Researcher Award [2]
- 2000 Royal Society University Research Fellow[1]
- 2004 Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London [3]
- 2013 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- 2018 Distinguished Naturalist Award of the American Society of Naturalists[4]
- 2020 Linnean Medal[5]
- 2020 Elected to the Academia Europaea[6]
- 2022 Fellow of the Royal Society[7]
Select publications
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- Ben C. Sheldon; S Verhulst (1 August 1996). "Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 11 (8): 317–321. doi:10.1016/0169-5347(96)10039-2. ISSN 0169-5347. PMID 21237861. Wikidata Q34159212.
- Anne Charmantier; Robin H McCleery; Lionel R Cole; Chris Perrins; Loeske E B Kruuk; Ben C Sheldon (1 May 2008). "Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change in a wild bird population". Science. 320 (5877): 800–803. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1157174. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18467590. Wikidata Q31155027.
- Tim Clutton-Brock; Ben C. Sheldon (7 September 2010). "Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25 (10): 562–573. doi:10.1016/J.TREE.2010.08.002. ISSN 0169-5347. PMID 20828863. Wikidata Q37786711.
References
edit- ^ a b "Professor Ben Sheldon, Director of the Edward Grey Institute, Head of the Department of Zoology". 22 May 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ "Christopher Barnard Award". ASAB. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
- ^ "ZSL Awards". Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Retrieved 2021-03-13.
- ^ "2018 American Society of Naturalists Awards". The American Naturalist. 193 (1): ii–iii. 2018-11-13. doi:10.1086/700876. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 30624108.
- ^ "Professors King and Sheldon recognised by The Linnean Society". n.d. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Sheldon Ben". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
- ^ "Benjamin Sheldon". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-05-17.