The Read Group

Professor Andrew Read

Location: Room 517 Mueller Laboratories/
Room 115 Agricultural Sciences Building
Telephone: +814 867-2396/+814 863 4444
Email: Andrew Read
Internet: The Read Group

C.V.

JOBS:
Pennsylvania State University (2007- current)
Professor of Biology and Entomology, and Eberly College of Science Distinguished Senior Scholar.

University of Edinburgh (1993-2007)
Professor of Natural History (1998-2007)
BBSRC Second Advanced Research Fellowship (1998)
BBSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (1993-1997)
Adjunct Professor, University of Tromsø, Norway (1992-1997)

University of Oxford (1985-1992)
Lloyds of London Tercentenary Fellowship (1991-1992)
Lecturer in Zoology, St Catherines College, Oxford University (1989-90)
Junior Research Fellowship, Christ Church, Oxford (1988-1992)


AWARDS:
Fellowship Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2006-7)
Fellowship of Royal Society of Edinburgh (2003)
Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London (1999)
Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists (1991)
Thomas Henry Huxley Award, Zoological Society of London (1991)
Commonwealth Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford University (1985-1988)



DEGREES:
D.Phil., University of Oxford (1985-1989) [Supervisor: Prof. Paul Harvey FRS]
BSc (Hons) 1st Class in Zoology, University of Otago, New Zealand (1981-1984)

Research interests

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Publications

To download a list of AR's publications click here

For an up to date list click here

Miscellaneous

My sabbatical year (2006-7) at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin was special. Read why.

 

I was a BA Media Fellow 2003, based with the Irish Times in Dublin. (The BA = British Association for the Advancement of Science.) For details of the scheme, click here. To see what the previous fellows made of it, click here, what I made of it, click here, and what daily life was like, click here. Example stories:
Biodiversity Sept. 18 p.11
Exercise and the elderly Sept. 13 p.6
EU regulations that kill people Sept. 12 p.8
Tone deaf? Sept. 12 p.8
Irrational birds Aug. 21 p.8
Near-zeroG engineering Sept. 4 p.13
Solar storms Sept. 4 p. 13
Irish FRS's Oct. 16 p. 17


Stranger yet, check out Andrew as art installation here.