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Vice President, Biological Secretary Royal Society of London Sir David Read is Biological Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society. He is also Emeritus Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990 and became its Biological Secretary and Vice President in 2003. The main research activities of Professor Read are in the areas of plant and fungal physiology and ecology. His specialist interest is in the biology of root-fungus symbioses, known as mycorrhizas. He has established the roles played by these associations at a number of scales from the molecular to the ecosystem. In addition to supervising more than 40 Ph.D. students in this area, he has published more than 200 papers. He co-authored the seminal text on the subject, Mycorrhizal symbiosis, which was published by Academic Press in 1997. Recent honors include award of the Frances E. Clark Distinguished Lectureship on the Frontiers of Soil Science by the Soil Science Society of America in 2001, the Kempe Award in Ecology, Sweden 2002, a Miller Visiting Research Professorship in the University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003. He was knighted for services to biological sciences in 2007. Other national responsibilities include Chairmanship of the Board of Directors of Rothamsted Research, Chairmanship of the UK Forestry Commissions Research Advisory Board, and Membership of the Governing Body of the Macaulay Institute. Professor Read also serves on the Council of NERC. At the Royal Society, Professor Read takes responsibility for the processes involved in the appointments of University Research Fellows, Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows, and Research Professors. He is chairman of the Conference Grants Committee and a member of the Proceedings B and Transactions B Editorial Boards. Together with the Physical Secretary, he oversees the processes involved in the election of Fellows and in the award of medals and prizes. |
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