Loeske Kruuk Explained

Loeske E. B. Kruuk FRS is an evolutionary ecologist who is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Edinburgh. She was awarded the 2018 European Society for Evolutionary Biology President's Award. In 2023, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

Early life and education

Kruuk started her academic career in 1988 studying mathematics at Somerville College, Oxford.[2] [3] [4] She switched to biology with an MSc in Ecology at the University of Aberdeen, and then a PhD in population genetics at the University of Edinburgh, where she investigated amphibian hybrid zones with Nick Barton.[5] For postdoctoral researcher with Tim Clutton-Brock at the University of Cambridge and Josephine Pemberton at the University of Edinburgh, she studied evolutionary processes in red deer. During this position, she started to appreciate the power of long-term wild animal population studies in understanding evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics.

Research and career

In 2000, Kruuk held a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and became Professor of Evolutionary Ecology in 2009. She moved to the Australian National University in 2012, where she was awarded an Australian Research Council fellowship. Her research laboratory investigated the influence of climate change on animal populations. Her work focuses on wild vertebrate species,[6] [7] and considers evolution and natural selection in natural populations, effects of ongoing environmental change, quantitative genetics, inbreeding and inbreeding depression, maternal effects and life history evolution. She won an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in 2020.[8]

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In 2021, Kruuk was selected as one of the Royal Society Research Professors, which allowed her to return to the University of Edinburgh.[9] There she investigates the impacts of environmental change on natural populations.

She is an Editor of the biological journal Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences.

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Loeske Kruuk . 2023-05-14 . royalsociety.org.
  2. Web site: Loeske Kruuk ANU Research School of Biology. 2021-01-16. biology.anu.edu.au. en.
  3. Web site: Mary Lyon Medal 2015 - Prof Loeske Kruuk. 2021-01-16. Genetics Society. en-GB.
  4. Web site: Celebrating the Past - Investing in the Future. Somerville College, Oxford. 2016. 24 March 2021. 19.
  5. Web site: ESEB President's Award ANU Research School of Biology. 2021-01-16. biology.anu.edu.au. en.
  6. Web site: Kruuk Group - Evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics ANU Research School of Biology. 2021-01-16. biology.anu.edu.au. en.
  7. Web site: Are our wild animals growing old gracefully?. 2021-01-16. phys.org. en.
  8. Web site: Professor Loeske Kruuk awarded Australian Laureate Fellowship ANU Research School of Biology. 2021-01-16. biology.anu.edu.au. en.
  9. Web site: World-class scientists awarded Royal Society Research Professorships Royal Society. 2021-01-16. royalsociety.org. en-gb.
  10. Web site: 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Loeske Kruuk . 2021-01-16 . Australian Research Council.
  11. Web site: Mary Lyon Medal ANU Research School of Biology . 2021-01-16 . biology.anu.edu.au . en.
  12. Web site: Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) ANU Research School of Biology . 2021-01-16 . biology.anu.edu.au . en.
  13. Web site: ARC Future Fellowship ANU Research School of Biology . 2021-01-16 . biology.anu.edu.au . en.
  14. Web site: Fellow, The Royal Society of Edinburgh ANU Research School of Biology . 2021-01-16 . biology.anu.edu.au . en.
  15. Web site: 2016-06-21 . Fellows . 2021-01-16 . The Royal Society of Edinburgh . en-GB.
  16. Web site: Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal ANU Research School of Biology . 2021-01-16 . biology.anu.edu.au . en.
  17. Web site: Philip Leverhulme Prize ANU Research School of Biology . 2021-01-16 . biology.anu.edu.au . en.