Georgina Mary Mace (born July 12, 1953, London ) is a British ecologist and population biologist , a specialist in biodiversity . Member of the Royal Society of London (2002), professor at the University of London. Winner of the Heineken Prize (2016) and other distinctions.
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The system of scientific criteria developed by J. Mays for ecosystems and species at risk was adopted in 2000 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as the basis for the Red List of Endangered Species [2] .
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Biography
She graduated from the University of Liverpool (Bachelor of Zoology, 1976). She received a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology with a comparative ecology of small mammals in 1979 from the University of Sussex (in 2007 she will be awarded an honorary doctorate). Then at the postdoc positions at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and in Newcastle-upon-Tip, after which she returned to London. Since 1986 (91?), A researcher, in 2000-2006, Director of Science at the Institute of Zoology of the Zoological Society of London .
In 2006-2012. - At Imperial College London , professor, director of the Center for Population Biology.
Since 2012 - at University College London , professor of biodiversity and ecosystems and head of the Center for Biodiversity and Environmental Studies.
In 2011-2013. President and 2001-2004 vice president of the British Environmental Society . In 2007-2009 President of the . In 2007-2010. Vice Chairman of .
Scientific editor of PLOS Biology .
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- 1991 - Pew Fellows Program in Conservation and the Environment, Marine Fellow 1991-1994, [3]
- 1995 - NERC Advanced Fellowship 1995-1999
- 2005 - Ulysses S. Seal Award for Innovation in Conservation
- 2007 - International Cosmos Prize
- 2011 - Ernst Haeckel Prize, European Ecological Federation (first assignment) [4]
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- 2016 - Heineken Prize (in the field of ecology)
- 2016 - Linnaeus Medal of the London Linnaeus Society
Also awarded the Medal of the President of the British Environmental Society and Honors for Outstanding Service for Society for Conservation Biology.
Honorary Doctor of Sussex (2007) and Lancaster (2015) Universities [5] .
Lady Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2016, commander 2007, officer 1998) [2] [6] .
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- ↑ Record # 12327762j // general catalog of the National Library of France
- ↑ 1 2 Georgina Mace - KNAW
- ↑ Georgina Mace, Ph.D. | The pew charitable trusts
- ↑ Prizes & Awards - EEF - European Ecological Federation
- ↑ Lancaster University is delighted to confer Honorary Degrees this July | Lancaster university
- ↑ NERC - Four NERC colleagues get royal recognition