Anthony Edward Walsby, BSc(Birm), PhD(Lond), FRS, is the Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.[citation needed]
He is a researcher in the fields of Algae, Cyanobacteria, lake ecology, gas vesicles/vacuoles and genetics, covering the European lakes and Baltic Sea.[1] He is noted for his discovery of Haloquadratum walsbyi in brine ponds on the Sinai Peninsula in 1980.[2] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 11 March 1993.[3]
Specifically his research includes: