John H. Lawton#
| Membership Number: | 2395 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2005 Chairman, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
- 1999 - 2005 Chief Executive, Natural Environment Research Council
- 1989 - 1999 Director, NERC Centre for Population Biology and Professor of Community Ecology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
- 1985 - 1959 Professor (personal chair)
- 1982 - 1985 Reader
- 1978 - 1982 Senior Lecturer
- 1971 - 1978 Lecturer, University of York
- 1968 - 1971 Demonstrator in Animal Ecology, Department of Zoology, Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical and experimental population dynamics and community ecology
- Impacts of global environmental change on populations, communities and ecosystems
- Biological pest control
- The use of controlled environment facilities for ecological research
- Large scale patterns and processes in ecology
- Biodiversity and conservation
- Biodiversity and ecosystem processes
- Environmental science/policy interface
Honours and Awards
- 1987 President's Gold Medal of the British Ecological Society
- 1989 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 1996 ECI Prize in the Field of Terrestrial Ecology
- 1996 British Ecological Society's Marsh Award for Ecology
- 1997 CBE in The Queens Birthday Honours List
- 1998 Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists, Sweden.
- 1998 Zoological Society of London Frink Medal
- 2001 Honorary Life Member, Royal Entomological Society
- 2002 Society for Conservation Biology La Roe Award
- 2004 Japan Prize, Science and Technology for Conservation of Biodiversity
- 2005 KBE (Knighted) in the New Year Honours list
- 2006 Elected member Academia Europaea
- 2006 Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Science,Catalonia
- 2006 Fellowship of Imperial College 2006
- 2007 Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
- 2008 Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Foreign Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Fellow of WF-UK, 2008
- 2009 Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society
- Honorary degrees: Lancaster 1993; Birmingham 2005; York 2005; Aberdeen 2006; East Anglia 2006
