Stephen Simpson (professor)

Stephen Simpson

AC FRS FAA
Born26 June 1957 Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
Awards
Australian Laureate Fellowship (2009)
Websitewww.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/stephen-simpson.html
Academic career
FieldsEntomology, nutrition Edit this on Wikidata
Institutions

Stephen James Simpson AC[2] FRS FAA (born 26 June 1957)[1] is the executive director of Obesity Australia and the academic director of the Charles Perkins Centre.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Born in Australia, he graduated with a BSc from the University of Queensland in 1978, and completed his PhD at King's College London in 1982 on locust feeding physiology.[10] He spent 22 years in Oxford, in Experimental Psychology, the Department of Zoology, and the University Museum of Natural History, before returning to Australia in 2005, in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney.

  1. ^ a b "Brief Curriculum Vitae: Stephen James Simpson" (PDF). Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours: 519 recipients, with scientists the big winners". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Professor Stephen Simpson". sydney.edu.au.
  4. ^ "Forget calories and eat carbohdrates for a longer life". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Diets and drugs are not enough to tackle obesity". abc.net.au. 8 June 2015.
  6. ^ "Sydney uni's new health research centre a world first: director". Financial Review. June 2014.
  7. ^ "The secret to a longer life may be your protein to carb ratio, not your calories". Vogue.com.au.
  8. ^ Chris Pash. "Science says a low protein, high carb diet could be just as effective as cutting calories". Business Insider Australia.[dead link]
  9. ^ "Bigger than the both of us: Obesity is best tackled at a community level". The Age. 23 April 2015.
  10. ^ 'SIMPSON, Prof. Stephen James', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016