David Read

Professor Sir David Read FRS is Emiritus Professor of Plant Science in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at University of Sheffield. His first degree and PhD came from University of Hull, the latter in 1963.

Professor Read's research focuses on plant and fungal physiology and ecology, particularly the biology of root-fungus symbioses.

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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990 and is currently its Vice President and Biological Secretary. He was the 2002 recipient of the Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists. He was knighted in 2007. The same year, he was made honourary doctor at Lund University.