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Peter is a terrestrial ecologist with 22 years experience of working with the British Antarctic Survey (15 summers and 1 winter in the south, plus 2 seasons in the Arctic) where he is currently a senior research scientist. He is Principal Investigator for BAS’s BIOFLAME programme, which is studying the DNA ‘fingerprints’ of biological evolution in Antarctica to trace the way species adapt to environmental extremes. He is also co-leader of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s Science Research Programme on Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Malaya, an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and a Guest Lecturer at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). His research interests are diverse, and include: evolution and life history strategies of Antarctic terrestrial lifeforms; Antarctic ecosystems as models to identify past and future global consequences of climate change; biogeography of Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates, plants and microbes; palaeobiogeographical reconstruction of Antarctica (using molecular biological techniques in combination with traditional approaches); and integration of biological and physical research disciplines. Before he joined BAS, Peter’s PhD research was on the behavioural ecology of dragonflies. He has now supervised the research of seven successful PhD students (four British and one each from Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand), and is currently supervising four postgraduates from UK, Malaysia, Netherlands and New Zealand.

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