Stuart West is an evolutionary biologist whose research focuses on understanding social interactions. He uses theoretical and empirical approaches to explain the evolution of behaviours such as cooperation, communication, and the sex ratio of offspring. His work has revealed unifying principles of social evolution across a diversity of organisms from insects and bacteria to humans and birds.
Since his PhD at Imperial College London, Stuart worked in Panama and Edinburgh, before moving to Oxford in 2009 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He has been awarded the American Society of Naturalists Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences Award, EMBO membership, the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Professional position
- Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford
