Stephen Simpson (professor)

Stephen Simpson
AC FRS FAA
Born 26 June 1957 (age 61)
Alma mater
Website http://sydney.edu.au/science/people/stephen.simpson.php
Scientific career
Fields Entomology, nutrition
Institutions

Stephen James Simpson AC[1] FRS FAA (born 26 June 1957) is the Executive Director of Obesity Australia and is the Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Born in Australia, he graduated with a BSc from the University of Queensland in 1978, and completed his PhD at King's College London in 1982 on locust feeding physiology.[9] He spent 22 years in Oxford, in Experimental Psychology, the Department of Zoology, and the University Museum of Natural History, before returning to Australia in 2005, in the School of Biological Sciences at Sydney University.

He was awarded the Wigglesworth Medal of the Royal Entomological Society in 2011 and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2015. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013 and is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

References

  1. ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours: 519 recipients, with scientists the big winners". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  2. ↑ "Professor Stephen Simpson". sydney.edu.au.
  3. ↑ "Forget calories and eat carbohdrates for a longer life". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ↑ "'Diets and drugs are not enough to tackle obesity'". abc.net.au.
  5. ↑ "Sydney uni's new health research centre a world first: director". Financial Review.
  6. ↑ "The secret to a longer life may be your protein to carb ratio, not your calories". Vogue.com.au.
  7. ↑ Chris Pash. "Science says a low protein, high carb diet could be just as effective as cutting calories". Business Insider Australia.
  8. ↑ "Bigger than the both of us: Obesity is best tackled at a community level". The Age.
  9. ↑ ‘SIMPSON, Prof. Stephen James’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
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