New Director for the CPB

Georgina Mace FRS has been appointed as the new Director of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Centre for Population Biology.

Georgina Mace FRS has been appointed as the new Director of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Centre for Population Biology.

Professor Mace joins Imperial from the Zoological Society of London, where she has been Director of Science since 2000. Her new role at NERC's Centre for Population Biology will see her leading a large team of scientists at the College's Silwood Park campus near Ascot, working on diverse research projects including biodiversity patterns, ecology and evolution.

After taking up her post in November this year, Professor Mace will continue to develop her own research on the status and trends of global biodiversity, managing the environment, and negotiating the impact that human development has on the natural world. In addition she will focus on bridging the gap between fundamental science and policy-makers, to ensure that the Centre for Population Biology's research continues to inform key policy issues such as managing land use and dealing with climatic changes.

Professor Mace said: "I'm really looking forward to taking up this new role at Imperial College, and I feel very privileged to have the chance to work alongside the CPB's internationally-renowned team. There are so many ways that understanding population biology can be used to address some of the really big environmental issues facing the planet, and I think that what we need to focus on now is scaling up scientific research, and taking it out of the laboratory, to look at the bigger picture."