Russell Scott Lande

Research interests

• Quantitative genetics and evolution of natural populations
• Ecology and conservation biology
  • Stochastic population dynamics
  • Demographic and genetic factors in extinction
  • Measurement, patterns and processes of species diversity

Background

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, 1976-1978
• Assistant Prof., Dept. Biophysics & Theoret. Biology, Univ. of Chicago, 1978-1982
• Associate Prof., Dept. Biology (Ecology & Evolution), Univ. of Chicago, 1982-1989
• Louis Block Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolution, Univ. of Chicago, 1989-1990
• Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, 1990-1999
• Professor, Department of Biology, University of California - San Diego, 1999-2007
• Prof. II (20%), Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, 2007-2016
• Royal Society Research Professor, Imperial College London, 2007-2016
• International Chair Professor, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, 2016
• International Chair Professor (40 %), Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, 2017-

Honours and memberships

• Weldon Prize (medal) for mathematical contributions to biology, University of Oxford, 2010
• Balzan Prize - Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics, Balzan Foundation, 2011
• Fellow of the Royal Society of London, The Royal Society of London, 2012
• Royal Society Research Professorship (5 year renewal), Royal Society of London, 2012
• Elected member, National Academy of Sciences USA, National Academy of Sciences USA, 2015
• Outstanding Paper Award, The Wildlife Society, The Wildlife Society, 2015

Education

• Harvard University, Ph.D. in Biology, 1976
• Organization for Tropical Studies, San José, Costa Rica, Field Ecology, summer 1973
• University of Chicago, graduate study in Theoretical Biology, 1972-1973
• University of California, Irvine, B.S. in Biology, 1972