Prof Ian Johnston, FRSE

Career: NERC postdoctoral research fell Univ of Bristol 1973-76; Univ of St Andrews: lectr 1976-84, reader in physiology 1984-85, dir Gatty Marine Lab 1985-2008, prof of comparative physiology (personal chair) 1985-97, Chandos prof of physiology 1997-, fndr chm Dept of Biological and Preclinical Med 1987-91, head Sch of Biological and Med Scis 1991-92, chm Research Div of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology 1992-97, head Sch (later Div) of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology 1997-2002, dir of research Sch of Biology 2002-06; visiting scientist to various outside orgns, numerous research visits abroad; memb: Bd Scottish Assoc of Marine Scis 1991-97 (memb Cncl 1994-97), Antarctic Research Ctee Royal Soc 1993-; pres Soc for Experimental Biology 2007-09, memb NERC (chm Marine Science and Technology Bd 1995-2000); Scientific Medal Zoological Soc of London 1984, Silver Medal 8th Plymouth Marine Sci lectr USA 1994; memb Physiological Soc 1982, scientific fell Zoological Soc of London 1985, FRSE 1987, FIBiol 1997

Books and Publications: Essentials of Physiology (jtly, 3 edn 1991, trans Spanish 1987, Italian 1989, French 1990), Phenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation of Animals to Temperature (jt ed, 1996), Environmental Physiology of Animals (2000); various book chapters, numerous reviews and original refereed papers