Tristram Wyatt

Tristram Dick Wyatt (born 16 December 1956)[1] is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is a senior research fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Wyatt researches pheromones and animal behavior.

Tristram Wyatt
Born (1956-12-16) 16 December 1956
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology, animal behavior, pheromones
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
University of Oxford
ThesisThe ecology of parental care in the saltmarsh beetle Bledius spectabilis (1983)

Education

Wyatt completed a Ph.D. in animal behavior at University of Cambridge.[2] His 1983 dissertation was titled The ecology of parental care in the saltmarsh beetle Bledius spectabilis.[3]

Career

Wyatt was a university lecturer at University of Leeds and conducted research fellowships at University of California, Berkeley and Cardiff University. He joined the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education in 1989 as a university lecturer of biological sciences.[4] From 2000 to 2005, Wyatt was University of Oxford's director of distance and online learning. In 2015, he did a TEDx talk titled Smelly Mystery of Human Pheromones.[5] Wyatt is a senior research fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is a visiting lecturer at University College London.[2]

Wyatt researches the evolution of pheromones and animal behavior.[5]

Personal life

Wyatt is gay and married to a photographer and artist. He founded the Oxford Area Academic LGBT Staff Network. In 2009, Wyatt co-founded University of Oxford's official LGBT+ Staff Network which started the annual Oxford University LGBT history-month lecture. In 2013, he supported the LGBT Staff Network i600 at Imperial College London. Wyatt has spoken at the UK LGBT STEMinar, Oxford Pride, and the Royal Society during Pride in London.[6]

Awards and honors

In 2014, Wyatt's book, Pheromones and Animal Behavior, won the Royal Society of Biology's best postgraduate textbook prize.[2]

Selected works

Books
  • Wyatt, Tristram D. (2003). Pheromones and Animal Behavior: Communication by Smell and Taste. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521485265.
  • Wyatt, Tristram D. (2014). Pheromones and Animal Behavior: Chemical Signals and Signatures. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521112901.
  • Wyatt, Tristram D. (2017). Animal Behavior: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198712152.

References
  1. "LCCN data".
  2. "Dr Tristram Wyatt". Gresham College. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  3. Wyatt, T. D. (1983). The ecology of parental care in the saltmarsh beetle Bledius spectabilis (Ph.D. thesis). University of Cambridge.
  4. "Bio | Tristram Wyatt". Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  5. "Dr Tristram Wyatt | Department of Zoology". www.zoo.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  6. https://500queerscientists.com/tristram-d-wyatt/?ids=[576]. Missing or empty |title= (help) 500 Queer Scientists|language=en|access-date=2020-06-26}}
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