Roy Anderson#
| Membership Number: | 1782 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ORGANISMIC & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/roy.anderson |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2000 Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
- 2008-2010 Rector, Imperial College London
- 2004-2008 Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence, UK
- 2000-2004 Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
- 1993-1998 Head of the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
- 1984-1993 Professor and Head of Department of Biology, Imperial College London
- 1977-1984 Lecturer, Reader and Professor, Imperial College, London
- 1973-1977 Lecturer (Parasitology), King’s College, London
- 1971 PhD degree in parasitology, Imperial College, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Infectious agents
- Interaction between pathogens and the immune system
- Spread and persistence of genotypes within pathogen populations
- Impact and control of diseases within human and other animal communities
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list
- 2005 Ernst Chain Prize, Imperial College
- 1998 Fellow of Academia Europaea
- 1998 Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)
- 1989 Weldon Memorial Prize for Biomathematics, University of Oxford
- 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society (London)
