世界上最顶尖的昆虫学家和营养学家Stephen Simpson
52fw.cn 03-24 次遇见斯蒂芬·辛普森AC教授是查尔斯·珀金斯中心的学术主任,悉尼大学生命与环境科学学院教授,澳大利亚肥胖协会执行董事。
斯蒂芬出生在墨尔本。在昆士兰大学完成本科学位后,他在伦敦大学攻读博士学位。他在牛津大学度过了22年,首先是实验心理学,然后是动物系和牛津大学自然历史博物馆,然后于2005年作为ARC联合会研究员回到澳大利亚。
斯蒂芬一直是牛津大学客座教授、柏林高级研究院(Wisenschaftskolleg)研究员、亚利桑那大学杰出客座研究员、巴塞尔大学客座教授。
2007年,斯蒂芬被选为澳大利亚科学院院士,2008年,他被授予尤里卡科学研究奖,2009年,他被评为新南威尔士州年度科学家,2010年,他被伦敦皇家昆虫学会授予威格尔斯沃思奖章获得者,
Professor Stephen Simpson AC is Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre, and a Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney, and Executive Director of Obesity Australia.
Stephen was born in Melbourne. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he undertook his PhD at the University of London. He spent 22 years at the University of Oxford, first in Experimental Psychology, then in the Department of Zoology and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, before returning to Australia in 2005 as an ARC Federation Fellow.
Stephen has been Visiting Professor at Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Arizona, and Guest Professor at the University of Basel.
In 2007 Stephen was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, in 2008 he was awarded the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, in 2009 he was named NSW Scientist of the Year, and in 2010 he was named as the Wigglesworth Medallist by the Royal Entomological Society of London, of which he was made an Honorary Fellow. He was also co-writer, narrator and presenter of the four-part documentary Great Southern Land, for ABC TV, which was aired to critical and viewer acclaim in September 2012.
In 2013 Stephen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London as “one of the world’s foremost entomologists and nutritional biologists”, and in 2015 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia “for eminent service to biological and biomedical science.”