Georgina Mace
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Dame Georgina Mace DBE FRS |
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| Born | Georgina Mary Mace 12 July 1953 London, England, UK |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Fields | Conservation Biology |
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| Thesis | The evolutionary ecology of small mammals (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul H. Harvey |
| Known for | Developing the criteria for listing species in the IUCN Red List |
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| Spouse | Roderick O. Evans |
| Children | one son, two daughters |
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Dame Georgina Mary Mace, DBE, FRS (born 12 July 1953) is a British ecologist and conservation scientist. She is Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems at University College London. She was previously Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London (2006-2012) and was Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London (2000-2006).
Mace was educated at the University of Liverpool where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976. She was awarded a PhD on the evolutionary ecology of small mammals in 1979 from the University of Sussex for research supervised by Paul H. Harvey.
Her research interests are in measuring the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change. She started her career at the Smithsonian Institution to study the impact on inbreeding in zoological collections. Mace continued this work and further researched captive population ecology by studying population viability in zoos. Mace commented that "It was exciting to make quantitative scientific contributions to conservation"
She has been President of the British Ecological Society, President of the Society for Conservation Biology, a member of the Science Committee of Diversitas. Mace was editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B, Biological Sciences) from 2008-2010.
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