Ben Sheldon - Curriculum Vitae#

Executive Editor: Journal of Animal Ecology, 2014-19

Editor: Animal Behaviour, 2001-03

Series Editor: Oxford Series in Ecology & Evolution, Oxford Univ. Press, 2015-

Associate Editor and Editorial Board Positions (selected):

• 2001 - 2012 The American Naturalist
  
• 2002 - 2008 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B
  
• 2006 - 2014 PLoS Biology
  
• 2006 - 2008 Journal of Animal Ecology
  
• 2009 - 2018 Trends in Ecology and Evolution
  
• 2010 - 2012 Evolution
  
• 2014 - 2017 Current Biology
  
• 2017 - 2018 e-Life

Selected External Committee/Advisory Board Memberships

• Council, European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 2005-08
  
• Advisory Board of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology 2008-21.
  
• Royal Society Newton Fellowship Committee: 2011-13; 2016-18; 2019-22
  
• Scientific Evaluation Panel, Thule Institute, Finland: 2012
  
• External Review Panel, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna: 2012
  
• External Review Panel, Severo Ochoa Centers of Excellence Program, Spanish Research Agency: 2012, 2018, 2019.
  
• Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics at Trondheim University, Norway, 2013-23
  
• Chair, External Review Panel for Finnish Academy Professors in Biosciences and the Environment, Helsinki, 2014, 2015.
  
• BBSRC Pool of Experts: Member 2015-18
  
• Portuguese Foundation for Science & Technology: 2016.
  
• Swedish Research Council, International Review Panel for Consolidator Grants, 2016, 2018, 2020.
  
• External Examiner, Undergraduate Degree in Zoology, Trinity College Dublin, 2018-20.
  
• Research Centre for Environmental Change, Helsinki, Chair of Scientific Advisory Board, 2018
  
• External Member of Max Planck Institute Directorship Committee, Seewiesen, 2019
  
• Danish National Research Centre, External Reviewer of Center of Excellence Proposals, 2019
  
• External Member of Max Planck Society Martinsreid Campus Advisory Committee, 2020

PhDs examined: 47 at 21 Universities in 10 countries (Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, UK)

Plenary/Named Lectures (last 5 years):

• Plenary, European Congress in Behavioural Biology 2016
  
• Witherby Lecture, BTO Annual Conference 2016
  
• Plenary, Hole-nesting Bird Meeting 2017
  
• Baerends Lecture, Netherlands Society for Behavioural Biology 2017
  
• Plenary, International Ornithological Congress 2018
  
• Freidrich von Siemens Lecture, Munich 2019