Biography:Bryan Grenfell
Bryan Grenfell | |
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| Born | Bryan Thomas Grenfell 7 December 1954[1] |
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| Fields | Epidemiology[2] |
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| Thesis | Population dynamics of baleen whales and krill in the Southern Ocean (1981) |
| Influenced | Julia Gog |
| Website | eeb |
Bryan Thomas Grenfell OBE FRS[3] (born 1954)[1] is a British population biologist and the Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.[2][4]
Education
Grenfell earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honours from Imperial College London, and DPhil in biology from the University of York in 1981.[5]
Career and research
After his DPhil, Grenfell spent a post-doctoral period at Imperial College London, with Roy Anderson, before joining the faculty at the University of Sheffield. He moved to the University of Cambridge in 1990, to the Pennsylvania State University in 2004, and then to Princeton University in 2009. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust (2014-2021).[6][7]
Grenfell's research[2] focuses on the (often non-linear) dynamics and control of infectious diseases of humans and animals.[8][9] He has used simple epidemiological models and time series analysis to interpret large spatio-temporal datasets, elucidating the spread through time and space of acute infectious pathogens, notably measles.[10][11]
In 2004, Grenfell and colleagues coined the term phylodynamics to describe the interaction between pathogen evolutionary dynamics and the dynamics of epidemics.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag[12]
Awards and honours
In 1991 Grenfell was awarded a T.H. Huxley Medal from Imperial College London, and in 1995 the 1995 Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004.[3] He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2011. In 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sheffield. In 2022 he received the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anon (2016). "Grenfell, Prof. Bryan Thomas". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10000465. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10000465. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anon (2015). "Professor Bryan Grenfell OBE FRS". London: Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/bryan-grenfell-11531. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/.
- ↑ Bryan Grenfell at princeton.edu.
- ↑ Bryan Grenfell, Alumni Professor of the Biological Sciences, in: Science Journal, Summer 2005.
- ↑ Professor Bryan Grenfell and Professor Tobias Bonhoeffer join the Wellcome Trust Board of Governors Wellcome Trust, press release of July 7, 2014.
- ↑ Anon (2016). "Board of Governors". London: Wellcome Trust. https://wellcome.ac.uk/about-us/governance/board-governors.
- ↑ Grenfell, Bryan T., and Andrew P. Dobson (eds). Ecology of infectious diseases in natural populations. Vol. 7. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- ↑ Metcalf, C. Jessica E.; Farrar, Jeremy; Cutts, Felicity T.; Basta, Nicole E.; Graham, Andrea L.; Lessler, Justin; Ferguson, Neil M.; Burke, Donald S. et al. (2016). "Use of serological surveys to generate key insights into the changing global landscape of infectious disease". The Lancet 388 (10045): 728–730. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30164-7. PMID 27059886.
- ↑ Grenfell, BT; Kappey, J; Bjornstad, ON (2001). "Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics". Nature 414 (6865): 716–723. doi:10.1038/414716a. PMID 11742391.
- ↑ Grenfell, Bryan T.Measles: Nonlinearity and Stochasticity in an Epidemic Metapopulation, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN:978-0-19-853006-0
- ↑ Wagner, Caroline (2021). et al.. "Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2". Science 373 (6562): eabj7364. doi:10.1126/science.abj7364. PMID 34404735.
- ↑ Kyoto Prize 2022
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