Bryan Grenfell

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Bryan Grenfell

OBE FRS
Born
Bryan Thomas Grenfell

(1954-12-07) 7 December 1954 (age 66)[1]
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology[2]
Institutions
ThesisPopulation dynamics of baleen whales and krill in the Southern Ocean (1981)
InfluencedJulia Gog
Websitescholar.princeton.edu/grenfell

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 at Princeton University.[2][4][5][6][7]

Education[]

Grenfell earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honours from Imperial College London, and PhD in biology from the University of York in 1980.[8]

Career and research[]

After his graduation Grenfell taught at the University of Cambridge, he was Alumni Professor of Biology, at Pennsylvania State University, and he is an affiliate of the Center for Health and Wellbeing. Together with a number of other persons, in 2016 he proposed a as a means of helping combat epidemics.[9] He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust since 2014.[10][11]

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]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Anon (2016). "Grenfell, Prof. Bryan Thomas". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10000465. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Bryan Grenfell publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Anon (2015). "Professor Bryan Grenfell OBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. 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". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ Bryan Grenfell at princeton.edu.
  5. ^ Grenfell, Bryan T., and Andrew P. Dobson (eds). Ecology of infectious diseases in natural populations. Vol. 7. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  6. ^ Grenfell, Bryan T.Measles: Nonlinearity and Stochasticity in an Epidemic Metapopulation, Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-853006-0
  7. ^ Grenfell, B. T.; Pybus, Oliver; Gog, Julia; Wood, James; Daly, Janet; Mumford, Jenny; Holmes, Edward C. (2004). "Unifying the Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens". Science. 303 (5656): 327–332. doi:10.1126/science.1090727. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 14726583.
  8. ^ Bryan Grenfell, Alumni Professor of the Biological Sciences, in: Science Journal, Summer 2005.
  9. ^ Metcalf, C. Jessica E.; Farrar, Jeremy; Cutts, Felicity T.; Basta, Nicole E.; Graham, Andrea L.; Lessler, Justin; Ferguson, Neil M.; Burke, Donald S.; Grenfell, Bryan T. (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. PMC 5678936. PMID 27059886.
  10. ^ Professor Bryan Grenfell and Professor Tobias Bonhoeffer join the Wellcome Trust Board of Governors Wellcome Trust, press release of July 7, 2014.
  11. ^ Anon (2016). "Board of Governors". wellcome.ac.uk. London: Wellcome Trust. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016.
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