Simon Potts#


Simon Potts
Membership Number:6368
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Elected:2022
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):http://www.rdg.ac.uk/staff/s-g-potts
ORCID:0000-0002-2045-980X




Present and Previous Positions
  • 2014 Director, Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading, UK
  • 2011 Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, University of Reading, UK
  • 2013 - 2013 Stapledon Trust Visiting Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Brisbane, Australia
  • 2012 - 2016 Deputy Director, Centre for Food Security , University of Reading, UK
  • 2007 - 2011 Principal Research Fellow, University of Reading, UK
  • 2002 - 2007 Senior Research Fellow, University of Reading, UK
  • 1998 - 2002 Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, UK
  • 1995 - 1998 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Haifa, Israel

Fields of Scholarship
  • Climate change
  • Conservation biology
  • Biodiversity
  • Natural capital
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Ecosystem services
  • Science-policy interface
  • Nature based solutions

Honours and Awards
  • Web of Science Group ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ (https://hcr.clarivate.com) Researchers’ listed in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 which “recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science”
  • 2013 - 2014 British Ecological Society’s Ecological Engagement Award recognising “an exceptional contribution to facilitating the use and understanding of ecology”
  • 2018 UK Government, Defra’s Bees’ Needs Champion for ‘Raising public awareness of the needs of pollinators’
  • 2005 Zayed International Prize for the Environment for contributions to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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