Adam Eyre-Walker | |
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Awards | Balfour Prize 2002 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Studies of Synonymous Codon Evolution in Mammals |
Doctoral advisor | William G. Hill |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Molecular evolution |
Institutions | University of Sussex |
Website | Official website |
Adam C. Eyre-Walker, FRS is a British evolutionary geneticist, currently Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment) in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex. He is noted for making "significant contributions to our understanding of evolution at the molecular level"[1] and pioneering the use of DNA sequence databases for extracting information about the evolution of genomes.[2]