Michael Bruford#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 5343 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/81128-bruford-mike |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6357-6080 |
| Twitter: | @MikeBruford |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/michael.bruford.3 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-bruford-65a21253/ |
Michael Bruford passed away April 13, 2023.
Present and Previous Positions
- 1988 - 1990 Ph.D. Student, Department of Zoology, University of Leicester
- 1990 - 1999 Postdoc, Group Head, Senior Research Fellow, Conservation Genetics Group, Institute of Zoology
- 1999 - 2001 Reader, Cardiff School of Biosciences
- 2001 - date Professor, Cardiff School of Biosciences
- 2010 - 2015 Head, Organisms and Environment Division, Cardiff School of Biosciences
- 2018 - 2019 Co-Director of Research, Cardiff School of Biosciences
- 2018 President's International Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Beijing
- 2019 - date Dean for Environmental Sustainability, Cardiff University
Fields of Scholarship
- Evolutionary biology
- Conservation genetics
- Conservation biology
- Population genetics
- Molecular ecology
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London
- 2011 Elected, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- 2012 - 2016 Royal Society/Wolfson Foundation Merit Researcher Award
- 2012 - 2016 Editor-in-Chief, Heredity
- 2013 - date Academic Lead, Wales Biodiversity Partnership Biodiversity Ecosystem Evidence and Research Needs Project.
- 2014 Co-Chair, IUCN Conservation Genetics Specialist Group
- 2016 - date Scientific Steering Committee Member, Future Earth bioGENESIS
- 2016 - date Interim Director, The Frozen Ark Project
- 2017 - 2020 Chair, NERC Peer Review College Panel C
- 2018 President’s International Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Beijing
- 2020 ZSL's Marsh Award for Conservation Biology
