!!David Sims - Curriculum Vitae \\ __Education__ \\ *1988-1991: B.Sc (Hons), 1st Class, Biological Sciences (Marine Biology). University of Plymouth, UK\\ *1991-1994: Ph.D Animal Behaviour. MBA Lab/University of Plymouth, UK. Personal NERC Appeal Award Studentship\\Thesis title: Physiological factors regulating appetite in small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula. Supervisor: Dr Q. Bone FRS \\ __Research__ \\ *Field: Behavioural Ecology of Animal Movement \\ *Research papers: >200 papers in books and journals, >50 as first author, >60 as senior author.\\ *Received >21,000 citations; h-index of 77\\ *Research grants: awarded >45 external grants to date totalling >£21M, incl from ERC, NERC, EU, Leverhulme Trust \\ __Invited Presentations at International Conferences. Examples include:__ \\ \\ KEYNOTE - Tractable models for testing theories about natural strategies: foraging behaviour and habitat selection of free-ranging sharks. FSBI International Symposium on ‘Fish as Models of Behaviour’, 30 June-4 July 2003, University of East Anglia, UK.\\ \\ INVITED - Lévy-like movements of large marine predators in relation to patchy prey. International Conference on “Movement and Search: From Biological Cells to Spider Monkeys” 24-26 August 2008, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden.\\ \\ INVITED - Hunting high and low: Lévy-like movements of large marine predators. “Recent Discoveries in Marine Biodiversity” Symposium, World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, 11-15 November 2008, Valencia, Spain. \\ \\ PLENARY - Where, what and why? Understanding behaviour patterns of marine fish from electronic tagging and track analysis. 1st International Fish Telemetry Conference, 12-18 June 2011, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.\\ \\ PLENARY – Making a Move in Movement Ecology: Do Lévy flights, walks and waits identify a common ecology of movement? International Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Dutch-Flemish Society for Ecology and Netherlands Ecology Research Network, 5-6 February 2013, Congrescentrum de Werelt, Lunteren, The Netherlands.\\ \\ PLENARY – Tracking the lives of pelagic sharks in a changing world. 5th International Whale Shark Conference, Exmouth, Ningaloo Coast, Australia, 28th – 31st May 2019.\\ \\ KEYNOTE – “Tracking dynamic space use of oceanic sharks under climate change, overfishing and increasing marine traffic”, Fisheries Society of the British Isles Symposium ‘Fish Habitat Ecology in a Changing Climate’, University of Essex, UK, 24th – 28th July 2023.\\ \\ KEYNOTE – “Where climate change, fisheries and predator behaviour collide: exploring shark responses to deoxygenating environments”, 8th International Bio-logging Science Symposium. University of Tokyo, Japan, 4-8 March 2024.\\ \\ __International Conferences Organised:__ \\ *2015: "Biology, Ecology and Conservation of Elasmobranchs: Recent Advances and New Frontiers", Annual International Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI), 27-31 July 2015, Plymouth, UK. Convener: Prof D Sims.\\ *2010: "Fish and Climate Change", Annual International Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI), Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. Conveners: Dr C Harrod & Prof D Sims.