David Sims - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 1988-1991: B.Sc (Hons), 1st Class, Biological Sciences (Marine Biology). University of Plymouth, UK
  
• 1991-1994: Ph.D Animal Behaviour. MBA Lab/University of Plymouth, UK. Personal NERC Appeal Award Studentship
  Thesis title: Physiological factors regulating appetite in small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula. Supervisor: Dr Q. Bone FRS

Research

• Field: Behavioural Ecology of Animal Movement
  
• Research papers: >200 papers in books and journals, >50 as first author, >60 as senior author.
  
• Received >21,000 citations; h-index of 77
  
• Research grants: awarded >45 external grants to date totalling >£21M, incl from ERC, NERC, EU, Leverhulme Trust

Invited Presentations at International Conferences. Examples include:

KEYNOTE - Tractable models for testing theories about natural strategies: foraging behaviour and habitat selection of free-ranging sharks. FSBI International Symposium on ‘Fish as Models of Behaviour’, 30 June-4 July 2003, University of East Anglia, UK.

INVITED - Lévy-like movements of large marine predators in relation to patchy prey. International Conference on “Movement and Search: From Biological Cells to Spider Monkeys” 24-26 August 2008, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden.

INVITED - Hunting high and low: Lévy-like movements of large marine predators. “Recent Discoveries in Marine Biodiversity” Symposium, World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, 11-15 November 2008, Valencia, Spain.

PLENARY - Where, what and why? Understanding behaviour patterns of marine fish from electronic tagging and track analysis. 1st International Fish Telemetry Conference, 12-18 June 2011, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

PLENARY – Making a Move in Movement Ecology: Do Lévy flights, walks and waits identify a common ecology of movement? International Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Dutch-Flemish Society for Ecology and Netherlands Ecology Research Network, 5-6 February 2013, Congrescentrum de Werelt, Lunteren, The Netherlands.

PLENARY – Tracking the lives of pelagic sharks in a changing world. 5th International Whale Shark Conference, Exmouth, Ningaloo Coast, Australia, 28th – 31st May 2019.

KEYNOTE – “Tracking dynamic space use of oceanic sharks under climate change, overfishing and increasing marine traffic”, Fisheries Society of the British Isles Symposium ‘Fish Habitat Ecology in a Changing Climate’, University of Essex, UK, 24th – 28th July 2023.

KEYNOTE – “Where climate change, fisheries and predator behaviour collide: exploring shark responses to deoxygenating environments”, 8th International Bio-logging Science Symposium. University of Tokyo, Japan, 4-8 March 2024.

International Conferences Organised:

• 2015: "Biology, Ecology and Conservation of Elasmobranchs: Recent Advances and New Frontiers", Annual International Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI), 27-31 July 2015, Plymouth, UK. Convener: Prof D Sims.
  
• 2010: "Fish and Climate Change", Annual International Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI), Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. Conveners: Dr C Harrod & Prof D Sims.