Chris D. Thomas

Christian David Thomas FRES FRS (born 9 September 1959) is a past president of the Royal Entomological Society.^[1] He is also Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York.^[2]

He completed his first degree (BA) in Applied Biology at the University of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Ecology at the University of Bangor and a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.^[3] A Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of York, he also serves as director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, a new £10 million transdisciplinary research centre funded for 10 years from 2019.^[4] In July 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[5]

Selected publications

• Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction. 2017. ISBN 978-0241240755