Ashleigh Griffin#
| Membership Number: | 7521 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7674-9825 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mLdKO78AAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Professor of Evolutionary Biology/Tutorial Fellow in Biological Sciences, New College, University of Oxford
- 2009 - 2012 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. URF research proposal “Cooperative behaviour in nature: from microbes to meerkats”.
- 2005 - 2009 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh (from April 2009, University of Oxford) — Dorothy Hodgkin RF research project title “Explaining the evolution of cooperative behaviour”
- 2002 - 2005 Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Natural Environment Research Council grant to Angus Buckling and Stuart West); Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh; Project title: “Competition between relatives and kin selection”.
- Full-time parent for three years from March 1999, part-time work for seven years until August 2009 (average 60%fte), Sept 2003 - Aug 2004 maternity leave
Fields of Scholarship
- Social evolution
- Behavioural ecology
- Cooperative behaviour
- Social microbiology
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - Volkswagen Foundation, Initiative: “Life?” A fresh scientific approach to the basic principles of life. Project title: We are many – in search of principles that enable multicellular life, Co-PI
- 2017 - Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London
- 2015 - European Research Council - Consolidator, Project title: Social Evolution and Social Engineering
- 2009 - Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 2008 - UNESCO/L’Oreal UK and Ireland Fellowship for Women in Science
- 2006 - Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship
