Tristram Dick Wyatt (16 December 1956) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is a senior research fellow in the
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of
Kellogg College, Oxford. Wyatt researches
pheromones and animal behavior.
Education
Wyatt completed a
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in animal behaviour at
University of Cambridge.
His 1983 dissertation was titled ''The ecology of parental care in the saltmarsh beetle Bledius spectabilis''.
Academic career
Wyatt was a lecturer at
University of Leeds and conducted research fellowships at
University of California, Berkeley and
Cardiff University
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. He joined the
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in 1989 as a university lecturer of biological sciences. From 2000 to 2005, Wyatt was
University of Oxford's director of distance and online learning. In 2015, he gave a
TEDx talk entitled ''The smelly mystery of the human pheromone''.
Wyatt is a senior research fellow in the
Department of Biology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of
Kellogg College, Oxford. He is a visiting lecturer at
University College London.
Wyatt researches the evolution of
pheromones and animal behaviour.
Personal life
Wyatt is gay and married to a photographer and artist. He founded the Oxford Area Academic LGBT Staff Network. In 2009, Wyatt co-founded University of Oxford's official LGBT+ Staff Network which started the annual Oxford University LGBT history-month lecture. In 2013, he supported the LGBT Staff Network i600 at
Imperial College London. Wyatt has spoken at the UK LGBT STEMinar, Oxford Pride, and the
Royal Society during
Pride in London.
Awards and honours
In 2014, Wyatt's book, ''Pheromones and Animal Behaviour'', won the
Royal Society of Biology
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's best postgraduate textbook prize.
Selected works
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Living people
1956 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
British evolutionary biologists
20th-century British biologists
21st-century British biologists
21st-century British male writers
21st-century British non-fiction writers
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academics of the University of Leeds
Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford
British LGBT scientists
Gay academics
British gay writers