Sir Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FRS (born 27 October 1958) is a British

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

. He is Professor of Population Biology at

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, Director of the

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and Directo
Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food

Life

Educated at

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and St Peter's College, Oxford, he gained his PhD in community ecology from Imperial College, London in 1983. He remained at Imperial as a post-doc until 1985, when he returned to Oxford as a demonstrator. In 1987 he returned to Imperial as a lecturer until 2006, when he again returned to Oxford, now as a fellow of Jesus College and Hope Professor of Zoology. He was awarded the Scientific Medal in 1994, and Frink Medal in 2009 of the

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. He was elected

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 2001. He was appointed

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(CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours. and was

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in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to scientific research and scientific advice to government. His most cited research article, published in

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, studies how to meet the challenge of feeding a growing global population. To date his research has been cited more than 40,000 times. Studying the

malaria Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death. S ...

problem Godfray and his coworkers presented data suggesting that use of spermless mosquitoes may be a feasible way to control the disease. Since February 2018 he is the director of the

and Professor of Population Biology at University of Oxford. In 2021 he was elected to the

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Footnotes

External links

* https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/about/director/ * http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/staff/academics/godfray_hcj.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20071212144853/http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/files/cv/sac/cgodfray.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Godfray, Charles 1958 births Living people British zoologists People educated at Millfield Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of Imperial College London Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society Hope Professors of Zoology Knights Bachelor Members of the American Philosophical Society