Clare Robinson

Biography

Present -  Senior Lecturer in Ecology, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester.

2005 – 2009  Lecturer in Ecology, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester.

1996 – 2005  Lecturer in Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, King’s College London.

1993 - 1996  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sheffield Centre for Arctic Ecology, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

1990 - 1993  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NERC CEH Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria.

Academic invitations

International:

September 2009 onwards. Invited review panel member of University of Lund Centre for Studies of Carbon Cycle & Climate Interactions, Sweden.

June 2008. Invited vice-chair of international external review panel of research quality in Biogeosciences at the University of Lund, Sweden.

May 2008. Invited presentation for the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.

February 2007. Presentation for ‘The Nature of Life Series’, Institute of Ecological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

January 2005. Participant, Arctic Soil Microbiology Network led by Professor J Schimel, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, for International Polar Year 2007-2008.

July 2003. Presentation ‘Does simulated N deposition affect saprotrophic fungal biodiversity at a high Arctic site?’at the Mycological Society of America/British Mycological Society joint meeting ‘The Fungal Cell: Individuals to Ecosystems, Asilomar, California, USA.

February 2001. Invited participant, International Tundra Experiment Workshop (organised by the US National Science Foundation), University Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Colorado in Boulder, USA.

Qualifications

NERC CASE PhD (University of Lancaster and NERC CEH Merlewood, Cumbria) 1990; BSc (Hons) University of Exeter 1986.