Roy E. Weber#
| Membership Number: | 771 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/roy-e-weber(ebed378a-2020-42bc-8294-d44304360af0).html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor Emeritus, Zoophysiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University
- 1988 - 2008 Professor of Zoophysiology, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 1995 - 2001 Director of SNF-funded Danish Centre Respiratory Physiological Adaptation
- 1984 - 1985 Sabbatical Year, Physiology Research Lab., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California
- 1978 - 1988 Professor of Ecophysiology, Odense University, Denmark
- 1972 - 1978 Faculty Appointment, Institute of Zoology and Zoophysiology, Aarhus University
- 1973 - 1974 Sabbatical Year, Duke Univ. Marine Lab., Beaufort, North Carolina, USA
- 1965 - 1972 Faculty Appointment, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands
- 1960 - 1965 Research Associate, Animal Physiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- 1960 Research Assistant, Council for Scient. & Industr. Research, Cape Town
Fields of Scholarship
- Animal physiology
- Evolution
- Respiration
- Animal adaptation to the environment
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Molecular ecophysiology
- Animals
Honours and Awards
- 1987 Ridder af Dannebrogordenen ('Knight of the Danish Flag'), bestowed by Queen Margrethe
- 1999 Honorary Doctorate (Dr. Phil. Honoris causa) Johannesburg Rand Afrikaans University
- 2005 ‘August Krogh' Distinquished Lecturer of American and Scandinavian Physiological Societies, at XXXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences, San Diego
- 2018 Paul Harris Fellow (bestowed by Rotary Foundation of Rotary International) for Furtherance of Better Understanding among Peoples of the World
