Simon Potts#
| Membership Number: | 6368 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rdg.ac.uk/staff/s-g-potts |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2045-980X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Director, Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading, UK
- 2011 Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, University of Reading, UK
- 2013 - 2013 Stapledon Trust Visiting Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Brisbane, Australia
- 2012 - 2016 Deputy Director, Centre for Food Security , University of Reading, UK
- 2007 - 2011 Principal Research Fellow, University of Reading, UK
- 2002 - 2007 Senior Research Fellow, University of Reading, UK
- 1998 - 2002 Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, UK
- 1995 - 1998 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Haifa, Israel
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate change
- Conservation biology
- Biodiversity
- Natural capital
- Sustainable agriculture
- Ecosystem services
- Science-policy interface
- Nature based solutions
Honours and Awards
- Web of Science Group ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ (https://hcr.clarivate.com
) Researchers’ listed in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 which “recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science”
- 2013 - 2014 British Ecological Society’s Ecological Engagement Award recognising “an exceptional contribution to facilitating the use and understanding of ecology”
- 2018 UK Government, Defra’s Bees’ Needs Champion for ‘Raising public awareness of the needs of pollinators’
- 2005 Zayed International Prize for the Environment for contributions to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
