Neil B. Metcalfe#
| Membership Number: | 2948 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/bahcm/staff/neilmetcalfe |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the Institute for Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
- 2006-2010 Head of Division of Environmental & Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow (name changed to Division of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2008)
- 2001 Professor in Behavioural Ecology, University of Glasgow
- 1998-2001 Reader in Behavioural Ecology, University of Glasgow
- 1992-1998 Lecturer in Zoology (Accelerated increment award, 1994) University of Glasgow
Fields of Scholarship
- Life history strategies in birds and fish
- Effects of poor nutrition at early developmental stages on adult performance
- Carotenoid modulation of immune function and sexual attractiveness in birds
- Metabolic rate, body condition and foraging modulation in fish
Honours and Awards
- 1999 Awarded the Fisheries Society of the British Isles’ Medal for ‘exceptional advances in the study of fish biology and/or fisheries science’
- 2006 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2006 Awarded ‘Highly Cited’ status by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), being in the top 300 most-frequently cited scientists worldwide in Animal & Plant Sciences
- 2011 Member of the Academia Europaea
