Professor Roderick Hunt
BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB

Research interests

Physiological and biometrical plant ecology

• Plant growth analysis

• Large-scale screening of plant attributes of commercial, ecological and evolutionary significance

• Plant growth studies involving climate change variables, especially elevated carbon dioxide (Coordinator of EC project EV5V-CT94-0428)

• Multivariate syntheses within the framework of plant strategy theory

• Properties of high-level biological systems, hierarchy theory, game theory and expert systems

• Effects of Gulf Stream variations on European vegetation (Coordinator of EC project ENV4-CT97-0432)

• Cellular automata modelling of herbaceous vegetation processes (contractor in EC project BIOSTRESS EVK2-CT-1999-00040)

• Functional types in global vegetation

Career

• BSc (1967), PhD (1971), DSc (2001) University of Sheffield

• CBiol (1972), FIBiol (1996) Institute of Biology

• Junior Fellow in Botany, University of Bristol (1970-1973)

• Independent Research Worker in the Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (1973-1975), Honorary Lecturer (1975)

• Sabbatical periods at the Universities of Reading and York, and at (the former) Grassland Research Institute, Hurley (1982-83)

• Honorary Senior Lecturer (1990), Honorary Reader (1998)

• Financial Manager of UCPE (1989-98)

• Visiting Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter (2003-07)

• Emeritus Professor in Biosciences (2007-present)

• FRSB, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (2015)