Ian L. Boyd
Sir Ian Lamont Boyd, (born 9 February 1957) is a Scottish zoologist, environmental and polar scientist, former Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and is a professor of biology at the University of St Andrews. He is Chair of the UK Research Integrity Office and President of the Royal Society of Biology. Early life and education He is son of the zoologist and conservationist John Morton Boyd. He attended the independent George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He went to the University of Aberdeen from 1975 where he graduated with a 1st class Degree in Zoology in 1979. He subsequently went to St John's College, Cambridge until 1982 and received a PhD degree from Cambridge University in 1983. He was a Churchill Fellow in 1980. He was a pilot in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1975 to 1978. Career Overview Boyd's career has evolved from physiological ecologist with the Natural Environment Research Council Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, to a Science Programme Director with the British Antarctic Survey, Director at the Natural Environment Research Council's Sea Mammal Research Unit, Chief Scientist to the Behavioural Response Study for the US-Navy, Director for the Scottish