Dolph Schluter

Dolph Schluter FRS FRSC OBC (born May 22, 1955) is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently studies speciation in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

Dolph Schluter
in April 2010 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
Born (1955-05-22) May 22, 1955
Dorval, Quebec
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma mater
AwardsDarwin–Wallace Medal (2014)
Darwin Medal (2021)
Crafoord Prize (2023)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
ThesisDiets, distributions and morphology of galapagos ground finches: the importance of food supply and interspecific competition. (1983)
Doctoral advisorPeter Grant

Schluter received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Guelph in 1977, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1983, both in Ecology and Evolution. Schluter's early research was done on the evolutionary ecology and morphology of Darwin's finches.

Schluter is the author of The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation, 2000, Oxford University Press, and The Analysis of Biological Data, 2009 (and 2015), with Michael Whitlock, and an editor with Robert E. Ricklefs of Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, 1993, Chicago University Press.

In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London.[1] In 2001, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[2] In 2017, he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences.[3] Schluter was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia in 2021.[4] In 2023, Schluter was awarded the Crafoord Prize[5] for "revolutionary studies of finches and sticklebacks [which have] provided us with knowledge of how species arise."[6]

References
  1. "Dolph Schluter | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
  2. "Dolph Schluter | Dolph Schluter lab".
  3. "Dolph Schluter". www.nasonline.org.
  4. "B.C.'s highest honour recognizes 16 British Columbians" (Press release). Government of British Columbia. August 2, 2021.
  5. "Meet the man who has transformed our understanding of evolution". cnn.com. 30 January 2023.
  6. "Studies of how new species arise are rewarded with the Crafoord Prize". www.kva.se.}
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