Summary
Loeske E. B. Kruuk FRS is an evolutionary ecologist who is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Edinburgh. She was awarded the 2018 European Society for Evolutionary Biology President's Award. In 2023, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]
Early life and education edit
Kruuk started her academic career in 1988 studying mathematics at Somerville College, Oxford.[2][3][4] She switched to biology with an MSc in Ecology at the University of Aberdeen, and then a PhD in population genetics at the University of Edinburgh, where she investigated amphibian hybrid zones with Nick Barton.[5] For postdoctoral researcher with Tim Clutton-Brock at the University of Cambridge and Josephine Pemberton at the University of Edinburgh, she studied evolutionary processes in red deer.[5] During this position, she started to appreciate the power of long-term wild animal population studies in understanding evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics.[2]
Research and career edit
In 2000, Kruuk held a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and became Professor of Evolutionary Ecology in 2009.[2] She moved to the Australian National University in 2012, where she was awarded an Australian Research Council fellowship. Her research laboratory investigated the influence of climate change on animal populations. Her work focuses on wild vertebrate species,[6][7] and considers evolution and natural selection in natural populations, effects of ongoing environmental change, quantitative genetics, inbreeding and inbreeding depression, maternal effects and life history evolution. She won an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in 2020.[2][8]
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In 2021, Kruuk was selected as one of the Royal Society Research Professors, which allowed her to return to the University of Edinburgh.[9] There she investigates the impacts of environmental change on natural populations.[9]
She is an Editor of the biological journal Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences.[citation needed]
Awards and honours edit
- 2023 Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
- 2021 Royal Society Research Professor[9]
- 2020 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship[10]
- 2018 European Society for Evolutionary Biology President's Award[5]
- 2015 The Genetics Society Mary Lyon Medal[11][3]
- 2014 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization[12]
- 2012 Australian Research Council Future Fellowship[13]
- 2012 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[14][15]
- 2008 Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal[16]
- 2006 Philip Leverhulme Prize[17]
Selected publications edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Loeske Kruuk". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Loeske Kruuk | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Mary Lyon Medal 2015 - Prof Loeske Kruuk". Genetics Society. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Celebrating the Past - Investing in the Future" (PDF). Somerville College, Oxford. 2016. p. 19. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ a b c "ESEB President's Award | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Are our wild animals growing old gracefully?". phys.org. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Professor Loeske Kruuk awarded Australian Laureate Fellowship | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ a b c "World-class scientists awarded Royal Society Research Professorships | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Loeske Kruuk". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Mary Lyon Medal | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "ARC Future Fellowship | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Fellow, The Royal Society of Edinburgh | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Fellows". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prize | ANU Research School of Biology". biology.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 16 January 2021.