Sir Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray
CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
FRS (born 27 October 1958) is a British
zoologist
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. He is Professor of Population Biology at
Balliol College, Oxford
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, Director of the
Oxford Martin School
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and Directo
Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food
Life
Educated at
Millfield
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Millfield is a registered charity and is the largest co-educational boarding schoo ...
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
Zoological Society of London
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History
On 29 ...
. He was elected
Fellow of the Royal Society
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in 2001. He was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours. and was
knighted
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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
Science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
, 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
Oxford Martin School
The Oxford Martin School is a research and policy unit based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. It was founded in June 2005 as the James Martin 21st Century School and is located in the original building of the Indian I ...
and Professor of Population Biology at University of Oxford.
In 2021 he was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
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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
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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