John Philip Sumpter is a distinguished professor of Brunel University, UK.[1] [2] He is an ecotoxicologist, and was amongst the team that first discovered endocrine disruption in fish, and the role of endocrine disrupting chemicals.[3] He also developed the yeast estrogen assay (YES).
In 2009, Sumpter received an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich.[4] [5] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to ecotoxicology in the aquatic environment.