Professor Kevin J Gaston

Director

Role

Professor Kevin J Gaston was appointed inaugural Director of the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) in November 2010 and took up his post in May 2011. Based within the ESI, Kevin works closely with colleagues from across the University; he is a member of the Biosciences department in the College of Life and Environmental Sciences.

Profile

Kevin graduated in Zoology from the University of Sheffield before obtaining a doctorate from the University of York. He then spent five years as a Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London, before becoming a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial College. He returned to Sheffield in 1995, becoming Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation in 2000. He has held a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.  He is an Honorary Professor at South Africa’s University of Stellenbosch, and an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. 

Contact details

Contact Kath Frankland, PA to Professor Kevin J. Gaston