Ashleigh Griffin - Curriculum Vitae#

Profile

I am Professor of Evolutionary Biology based in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. My research uses a broad range of approaches to understand the evolution of social interactions across taxa, and to apply this understanding to clinical problems of infectious disease, behavioural diversity across species and the evolution of multicellularity.

Employment History

• Professor of Evolutionary Biology/Tutorial Fellow in Biological Sciences, New College, University of Oxford, October 2012 - present
  
• Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford — 2009-2012
  
• Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh — 2005-2009
  
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Natural Environment Research Council grant to Angus Buckling and Stuart West); Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh — 2002 - 2005
  
• I have two children, born in March 1999 and September 2003. I was a full-time parent for three years from March 1999 and then worked part-time for seven years until August 2009 (average 60%fte). I spent one year on maternity leave (Sept 2003-Aug 2004)
  
• Total postdoctoral experience to date: 19 years

Education:

• Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh — PhD, 1998; “A genetic analysis of cooperative breeding in meerkats”; supervised by Professor Josephine Pemberton.
  
• University of Edinburgh – BSc (Hons.) Zoology (2i), 1994

Outreach:

I give numerous lectures and participate in regular events aimed at improving equality of access to Oxford University. I am also active in the promotion of gender equality in science, both at a local level through chairmanship of my department's Athena Swan committee and nationally through science festivals and museums. I am currently writing a book under contract with Princeton University Press, which explains how we can use evolutionary biology to understand human behaviour.

Academic Service:

Panel service: including ERC Consolidator Panel (chair); ERC Starting Grant Panel; Zoological Society of London Award Panel (chair), and Natural Environment Research Council peer review panel

Grant Reviewing: UK: NERC, BBSRC, Royal Society URF and Newton Fellowships, MRC, Leverhulme, Wellcome Trust. International: ERC (Starting), ERC (Consolidator), ERC (Advanced), ERC (Synergy), NSF (USA), Marsdon Fund (New Zealand), KU Leuven (Belgium)

Journal Editorships: Evolution, eLife, Biology Letters