Biography:

Education, appointments and honours

BA(Hons), St Johns College, Cambridge 1978, PhD, St Johns College, Cambridge 1981, Harkness Fellow 1982-3, Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge 1982-4, Lecturer (1984), Senior Lecturer (1996), University of Nottingham, Leverhulme Fellowship (1998)

Research Overview: Evolutionary Ecology

Dr. Francis studies the evolution of ecological and behavioural attributes of organisms, mainly in the field. He is particularly interested in the evolution of life histories and mimicry in insects, coevolution between plants and insects (especially in pollination), and in the importance of habitat fragmentation to populations and conservation.

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