Biography:Stuart West
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| Born | Stuart Andrew West 1970 (age 55–56) |
| Education | University of Cambridge (BA) Imperial College London (PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Oxford University of Edinburgh University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | Reproductive strategies in parasitic hymenoptera (1995) |
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Stuart Andrew West FRS is an evolutionary biologist studying social evolution and a Professor of evolutionary biology in the Biology Department at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3][4][5]
Education
West completed the Natural Sciences Tripos as an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge[6] followed by a PhD at Imperial College London on reproductive strategies in parasitic hymenoptera.[7][8]
Career and research
West's primary research interests are in the area of social evolution, sex allocation theory and microbial evolution. His research has attracted media attention,[9] and has been published in high profile journals such as Nature,[10] Science,[11] the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America[12] and Current Biology.[13][1][3][14] West uses theoretical and empirical approaches to explain the evolution of cooperation, communication, and sex ratio.[15]
With with John Krebs and Nicholas Davies, West is the co-author of the textbook An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology.[16]
Awards and honours
West was a distinguished junior scholar in residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada in 1999 and he has won the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Zoology (2006), the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (2006)[17]. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2026.[18] He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)[19] and a former[when?] holder of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.[8] He was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2026, alongside fellow Oxford researcher Matilda Brindle and University of Florida researcher Catherine F. Talbot, for their work on reconstructing the evolutionary history of human kissing.[20]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ "Professor Stuart West". Archived from the original on 2024-06-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20240603225606/https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/stuart-west.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stuart West publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ↑ "Staurt West". Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20080906195332/http://westgroup.biology.ed.ac.uk/media.html.
- ↑ "The West Group". Archived from the original on 2012-11-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20121117173844/http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/group/west.
- ↑ Stuart A. West Entry at ORCID
- ↑ West, Stuart Andrew (1995). Reproductive strategies in parasitic hymenoptera. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. OCLC 940354334. ProQuest 1780576736.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Professor Stuart West FRS". https://royalsociety.org/people/stuart-west-10844/.
- ↑ "Media". Archived from the original on 2017-10-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20171014021123/http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/group/west/media.html.
- ↑ , Wikidata Q53557688
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- ↑ Stuart West publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
- ↑ Davies, Nicholas B.; Krebs, John R.; West, Stuart A. (2014). An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology (4th ed.). Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781444398472. OCLC 898271534.
- ↑ "News & Events - Academic Innovators to Accept Awards at Royal Dinner". Archived from the original on 2022-12-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20221207023858/http://websiterepository.ed.ac.uk/news/060804chancellorawards.html.
- ↑ Anon (2026-05-27). "Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society" (in en). London: Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/news/2026/05/new-fellows-announcement-2026/.
- ↑ Anon (2014). "Stuart A. West". Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization. https://people.embo.org/profile/stuart-a-west.
- ↑ Ramakrishman, Adithi (5 September 2026). "Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science". Los Angeles Times. AP News. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-09-05/research-on-cockroach-milk-nose-blowing-wins-ig-nobel-prizes.
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