DEDepartment Partridge (in dismantling)
Linda Partridge
Emeritus Scientific Member
(former Director)
Scientific Career
| 2022 | Emeritus Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
| 2019-present | Biological Secretary and Vice-President, The Royal Society, London, UK |
| 2018-2019 | Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
| 2011-present | Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Cologne, Germany |
| 2008-2022 | Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany |
| 2007-present | Director, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, London, UK |
| 2002-2007 | BBSRC Professorial Fellow, University College London, London, UK |
| 1997-2002 | NERC Research Professor, University College London, London, UK |
| 1994-2007 | Director, Centre for Ecology and Evolution, University College London, London, UK |
| 1994-present | Weldon Professor of Biometry, University College London, London, UK |
| 1992-1993 | Darwin Trust Research Fellow, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1992-1993 | Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1987-1992 | Reader, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1985-1986 | Nuffield Research Fellow, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1978-1987 | University Lecturer, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK |
| 1976-1978 | University Demonstrator in Department of Zoology, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK |
Education
| 1974-1976 | NERC post-doctoral fellowship in Department of Biology, University of York |
| 1974 | Doctor of Philosophy (D. Phil.), Oxford University, Oxford, UK |
| 1971-1974 | Oxford University Christopher Welch Scholarship in Department of Psychology, Oxford University. D. Phil. 1974 |
| 1968-1971 | St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Zoology (Class 1), College Exhibition |
Prizes / Awards
| 2019 | Honorary Doctor of Science, Imperial College London, UK |
| 2019 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of East Anglia, UK |
| 2017 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| 2017 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Kent, UK |
| 2016 | The Galton Lecture 2016 and Prize, The Galton Institute, London, UK |
| 2014 | BBSRC Anniversary Award for Excellence in Bioscience, UK |
| 2014 | Jean Mott Prize Lecture, Physiology 2014, London, UK |
| 2012 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Brighton, UK |
| 2011 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Bath, UK |
| 2011 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Oxford, UK |
| 2010 | Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA |
| 2009 | Dame Commander of the British Empire - awarded for services to Science, UK |
| 2009 | Royal Society Croonian Prize Lecture, UK |
| 2009 | Women of Outstanding Achievement award for Science Discovery, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, UKRC for Women, UK |
| 2009 | Darwin-Wallace medal, The Linnean Society of London, UK |
| 2008 | Thomassen a Thuessink Medal, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 2006 | Living Legend, Help the Aged, UK |
| 2005 | Medal of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, UK |
| 2004 | The Lord Cohen Medal, British Society for Research on Ageing, UK |
| 2004 | Honorary Doctor of Science, University of St Andrews, UK |
| 2004 | Foundation IPSEN Longevity Prize, France |
| 2003 | CBE for services to evolutionary biology, UK |
| 2002 | Sewall Wright Award of the American Society of Naturalists, USA |
| 2000 | Frink medal of the Zoological Society of London, UK |
| 2000-2003 | President of the Genetics Society |
| 1994-1997 | President of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, UK |
| 1993-1995 | Vice-President of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Europe |
| 1992 | Vice-President of the Society for the Study of Evolution, USA |
| 1990-1992 | President of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology |
Memberships
| 2010-2012 | Member of the Council of The Royal Society, UK |
| 2005-present | Member of EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2004-present | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK |
| 1998-2000 | Member of the Council of The Royal Society, UK |
| 1996-present | Fellow of The Royal Society, UK |
| 1992-present | Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK |