Professor Stuart West FRS

Brasenose College is thrilled at the news that Professor Stuart West has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Stu is an evolutionary biologist whose research focuses on understanding social interactions. He uses theoretical and empirical approaches to explain the evolution of behaviours such as cooperation, signalling and the sex ratio of offspring. His work has revealed unifying principles of social evolution across a diversity of organisms from insects and bacteria to humans and birds. Read more about his research here, plus some YouTube videos aimed to explain his work.

Since his PhD at Imperial College London, Stu worked in Panama and Edinburgh, before moving to Oxford in 2009 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He has been awarded the American Society of Naturalists Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences Award, EMBO membership, the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of sciences, alongside other outstanding researchers from across the world, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to advancing scientific knowledge. Stu is the second Brasenose College member to be elected to the Royal Society in this round, joining Professor J Michael Kosterlitz.

Stu is a Senior Kurti Research Fellow at Brasenose College.

Read more about Biology at Brasenose here.