Tim Benton
advisory board
FCRN
Sweden
Biography
Tim Benton is Professor of Population Ecology at the University of Leeds and UK Champion for Global Food Security and Professor of Population Ecology. He has held positions at UEA (postdoc), Cambridge University Press (Science Editor), Stirling University (lecturer and Senior Lecturer), Aberdeen University (Senior Lecturer) and Leeds (Professor, 2005, Director of the Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology (2005 -2007), Pro-Dean for Research (2007-2011). From 2011, he hase been UK Champion for Global Food Security, acting as ambassador and spokesperson for matters to do with food and food security, and coordinating work across this area between research councils and government departments.
Research Interest
His research career has been focussed on the linkage between organisms and environmental changes, and in the agri-environment sphere also focusses on how farming drives ecological dynamics (at field, landscape and larger scales, up to global).
