Ray Dixon - Curriculum Vitae#
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- 1966 - 1969 B.Sc. Microbiology (First Class hons) - University of Reading
- 1969 - 1973 D.Phil. Microbial Genetics - University of Sussex
HONOURS AND PRIZES
- Fleming Award, Society for General Microbiology (1983)
- Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)(elected 1987)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (elected 1999)
- Individual merit promotion to Band 2 (2002)
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Stockholm (2012)
- Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Advanced Research (2019)
PANELS AND COMMITTEES
- EMBO Publication and Membership Committee (1998-2004)
- Management Board, Cambridge and East Anglia Structural Biology Centre (1999 - 2005)
- Microbiological Research Authority, Scientific Advisory Committee, CAMR, Porton Down
- Royal Society Biological Sciences Awards Committee (1999 - 2003)
- Chairman, Royal Society Conference Grants Committee 6 (2003 - 2008)
- Chairman, Advisory Board, European Nitrogen Fixation Conference (2006 - 2012)
- Royal Society Scientific Aspects of International Security Group (2000 – 2008)
- UK Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (2002 - 2005)
- Wellcome Trust Molecular and Cell Panel (2002 - 2005)
- BBRC Genes and Developmental Biology Committee (GDB) (2007 - 2009)
- BBSRC IS IT Change Board (2009 - 2012)
RECENT INVITED TALKS
- EMBO Keynote Lecture, European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, Tenerife, Spain (2014)
- 14th International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-legumes, Chengdu, China (2014)
- International Symposium on “Tackling the Nitrogen Crisis; what are the solutions” Oxford, UK (2015)
- 19th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Asilomar, California, USA (2015)
- European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, Budapest, Hungary (2016)
- 20th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Granada, Spain (2017)
- 14th International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-legumes, Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil (2018)
- Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Joinville, Brazil (2018)
- EMBO Keynote Lecture, European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, Stockholm, Sweden (2018)
- Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Nitrogen Fixation, Wuhan, China (2019)
