Clive Finlayson#
Membership Number: | 2836 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
Elected: | 2010 |
Main Country of Residence: | GIBRALTAR |
Homepage(s): | http://www.gibmuseum.gi/Clive.html http://clivehumanevo.blogspot.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2003 Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
- since 1991 Director, The Gibraltar Museum
- Director of the Gibraltar Culture and Heritage Agency's Heritage Division
- 1991 Master of Science (MSc) in Museum Studies, The University of Leicester
- 1980 Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil). The University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Biogeography of hominins
- Ornithology
- Agent-based modelling of Pleistocene hominin populations
- Multi-scale spatio-temporal distribution patterns in animals
- Dynamics biogeography of bird populations
- The Neanderthal Extinction
- Human Ecology
- Evolutionary ecology
- Climate and ecological dynamics in the Quaternary and their impact on hominin populations
- Paleoanthropology
- Distribution patterns at large spatial scales
- Body size and the composition and structure of communities of vertebrates
Honours and Awards
- 1976 Recipient of the first David Lack Studentship awarded by the British Ornithologists’ Union
- 1978 - 1992 Founder and Chairman of the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society
- 1987 - 1989 Trustee of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust
- 1990 Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London
- 2003 Awarded MBE in H.M. The Queen’s New Year Honours
- 2018 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University
- 2019 Bestowed Gibraltar Medallion of Distinction
- 2019 Beacon Professor, University of Gibraltar