Charles Godfray


Sir Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray CBE FRS is a British zoologist. He is Hope Professor of Zoology at Jesus College, Oxford, Director of the Oxford Martin School and Director .

Life

Educated at Millfield and St Peter's College, Oxford, he gained his PhD in community ecology from Imperial College, London in 1983. He remained at Imperial as a post-doc until 1985, when he returned to Oxford as a demonstrator. In 1987 he returned to Imperial as a lecturer until 2006, when he again returned to Oxford, now as a fellow of Jesus College and Hope Professor of Zoology.
He was awarded the Scientific Medal in 1994, and Frink Medal in 2009 of the Zoological Society of London. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours. and was knighted in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to scientific research and scientific advice to government.
His most cited research article, published in Science, studies how to meet the challenge of feeding a growing global population. To date his research has been cited more than 40,000 times.
Studying the malaria problem Godfray and his coworkers presented data suggesting that use of spermless mosquitoes may be a feasible way to control the disease.
Since February 2018 he is the director of the Oxford Martin School at University of Oxford.

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