Andrew Read

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Room 401, Huck Life Science Building (not this is NOT the Millennium Science Complex)
Phone: +814 867-2396 (office)   +814 321 5004 (cell)  +814 863-5720 (lab)
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7604-7903
Website: http://www.thereadgroup.net
Email: a.read@psu.edu

C.V.

Full CV (pdf)

Pennsylvania State University
Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (from 2019)
Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology (from 2014)
Director, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (2010-2018)
Eberly Professor in Biotechnology (from 2015)
Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences (2012-2014)
Eberly College of Science Distinguished Senior Scholar (2007-2012)
Professor of Biology (2007-2012)
Professor of Entomology (2007-2014)

University of Edinburgh (1993-2007)
Professor of Natural History (1998-2007)
BBSRC Second Advanced Research Fellowship (1998)
BBSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (1993-1997)
Adjunct Professor, University of Tromsø, Norway (1992-1997)

University of Oxford (1985-1992)
Lloyds of London Tercentenary Fellowship (1991-1992)
Lecturer in Zoology, St Catherines College, Oxford University (1989-90)
Junior Research Fellowship, Christ Church, Oxford (1988-1992)

AWARDS:
Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2018)
Penn State President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration (2018)
Fellow The Royal Society (elected 2015)
Fellow American Academy of Microbiology (elected 2014)
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected 2012)
Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2003)
Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London (1999)
Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists (1991)
Thomas Henry Huxley Award, Zoological Society of London (1991)
Commonwealth Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford (1985-1988)

DEGREES:
D.Phil., University of Oxford (1985-1989) [Adviser: Prof. Paul Harvey FRS]
BSc(Hons) 1st Class, Zoology, University of Otago, NZ (1981-1984)

Research interests

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For a well-written lay summary of my current interests, try this.


Miscellaneous

My sabbatical year (2017-18) at the ETH Zurich with Bonhoeffer and Jokela was special. Read why.

My sabbatical year (2006-7) at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin was special. Read why.

I was a British Science Association (previously the British Association) Media Fellow 2003, based with the Irish Times in Dublin. (The BA = British Association for the Advancement of Science.) For details of the scheme, and what previous fellows made of it, click here. To see what I made of it, click here, and what daily life was like, click here. Example stories:

Biodiversity Sept. 18 p.11
Exercise and the elderly Sept. 13 p.6
EU regulations that kill people Sept. 12 p.8
Tone deaf? Sept. 12 p.8
Irrational birds Aug. 21 p.8
Near-zeroG engineering Sept. 4 p.13
Solar storms Sept. 4 p. 13
Irish FRS's Oct. 16 p. 17

A few random links (last updated Nov 2016): Here I am teaching on a CME course on Evolutionary Medicine. Here I try to explain to New Zealanders why we do what we do. Here and here I talk to colleagues about my teaching, with further ruminations here and here. You can see examples of me in MOOC action by visiting the CIDD U-tube channel. Here, I give a 2014 public lecture at Wiko in Berlin (I start half way through). Here I try to explain infectious diseases to the citizens of Pennsylvania on live TV. And here, I try to guess the important stuff we (the scientific community) will have done by 2034...

In 2012, I gave a TEDMED talk. The talk was captured as cartoon and loud art. As part of the whole TEDMED scene, Hanoch Piven attempted the first ever artistic portrait of me. We never met; he based the portrait on my photo on this page and drew on my answer to TEDMED's question 'what five objects best describe you?' (my NZ passport, my UK passport, my Green Card, my white board, and my imaginary BMW).

And here you can hear me talk about my profession (log in as guest).