斯蒂芬·辛普森AC教授是查尔斯·珀金斯中心的学术主任，悉尼大学生命与环境科学学院教授，澳大利亚肥胖协会执行董事。

斯蒂芬出生在墨尔本。在昆士兰大学完成本科学位后，他在伦敦大学攻读博士学位。他在牛津大学度过了22年，首先是实验心理学，然后是动物系和牛津大学自然历史博物馆，然后于2005年作为ARC联合会研究员回到澳大利亚。

斯蒂芬一直是牛津大学客座教授、柏林高级研究院(Wisenschaftskolleg)研究员、亚利桑那大学杰出客座研究员、巴塞尔大学客座教授。

2007年，斯蒂芬被选为澳大利亚科学院院士，2008年，他被授予尤里卡科学研究奖，2009年，他被评为新南威尔士州年度科学家，2010年，他被伦敦皇家昆虫学会授予威格尔斯沃思奖章获得者，并成为该协会的荣誉院士。他也是ABC TV的四集纪录片“大南国”的联合编剧、叙述者和主持人，该片于2012年9月播出，受到评论家和观众的好评。

2013年，斯蒂芬被选为伦敦皇家学会(Royal Society Of London)院士，被评为“世界上最顶尖的昆虫学家和营养生物学家之一”，2015年，他因“对生物和生物医学科学的杰出服务”而被授予澳大利亚勋章(Companion Of Australia Order)。

Professor Stephen Simpson AC is Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre, and a Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney, and Executive Director of Obesity Australia. 

Stephen was born in Melbourne. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he undertook his PhD at the University of London. He spent 22 years at the University of Oxford, first in Experimental Psychology, then in the Department of Zoology and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, before returning to Australia in 2005 as an ARC Federation Fellow. 

Stephen has been Visiting Professor at Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Arizona, and Guest Professor at the University of Basel. 

In 2007 Stephen was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, in 2008 he was awarded the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, in 2009 he was named NSW Scientist of the Year, and in 2010 he was named as the Wigglesworth Medallist by the Royal Entomological Society of London, of which he was made an Honorary Fellow. He was also co-writer, narrator and presenter of the four-part documentary Great Southern Land, for ABC TV, which was aired to critical and viewer acclaim in September 2012. 

In 2013 Stephen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London as “one of the world’s foremost entomologists and nutritional biologists”, and in 2015 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia “for eminent service to biological and biomedical science.”

Publications

• Dietary protein and lifespan. (2014). Nature Medicine 20(4), 349.

• Diet studies challenge thinking on proteins versus carbs. (2014). Science 343, 1068.

• Locust swarms: The rules of attraction. (2010). The Economist 18 September

• Hunger and cannibalism make locusts swarm. (2010). Planet Earth online

• Brainless behavior: a myxomycete chooses a balanced diet. (2010). PNAS 107, 5267-5268.

• Q&A. (2009). Current Biology 19, R632-R633.

• Animal behaviour: feeding the superorganism. (2009). Current Biology 19, R366.

• Sensible swarming. (2009). Nature 457, 132.

• Evolutionary ecology: old ideas percolate into ecology. (2009). Current Biology 19, R21-R23.

• The key to Pandora’s box. (2009). Science 323, 594-595.

• The hunger, the horror. (2008). New Scientist May 31, 42-45.

• Locusts, Cannibalism & Human Obesity. (2007). Australasian Science, August, 20-22.

• How locusts decide it’s time to swarm. (2006). New Scientist, June1.

• Align in the sand. Perspective. (2006). Science 312, 1320-1322.

• March of the locusts. Research Highlights. (2006). Nature 441, 670.

• Push on the marching crickets. News & Views. (2006). Nature 440, 38.

• Can the war on locusts be won? (2004). Science 306, 1880-1882.

• An insect’s extreme makeover. (2004). Science 306, 1881.




• 来源： https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/stephen-simpson.html