Professor of Ecology; Deputy Head of School; School of Biology
https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/school-of-biology/staff/98/professor-william-kunin
I graduated in Biology from Princeton, received a Masters Degree in Public Policy at Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle. I moved to Britain to take a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College, and moved to Leeds to take up a lectureship in ecology in 1996. I was promoted to become Professor of Ecology in 2009. I live in a pink house in the suburbs with my wife, two sets of (large) twins, a Romanian rescue puppy, and quite a few plants.
My research focuses on spatial aspects of the interactions between plants and the pollinators and herbivores that feed upon them, but extends to cover aspects of conservation biology, community ecology and biogeographic issues. I served as director of BIOCONS (the European Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Research) – a Marie Curie Early Stage Training site, and serves as Biosphere leader withoin the interdisciplinary NERC Doctoral Training Partnership (SPHERES). My current research includes several interdisciplinary collaborations, including two Global Challenges Research Fund projects in southern and eastern Africa.