AN innovative life sciences professor has received the distinguished honour of being made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Professor Adam Eyre-Walker, from the University of Sussex, has been named among 51 leading academics newly elected to the society in recognition of his outstanding contributions to scientific understanding.
One of the world’s leading researchers in the field of molecular and genome evolution, Prof Eyre-Walker has been a pioneer of DNA sequence databases to extract useful information about the patterns and processes involved in the evolution of genomes.
Prof Eyre-Walker said: “It is a great honour to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society. I was inspired to pursue my field of research as an undergraduate at Nottingham by Bryan Clarke, FRS, and I have subsequently been advised by or worked with several other fellows, who I have great respect for, including the founding father of life sciences at Sussex, John Maynard Smith.”
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