- Full Professor, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa
Professor Jeremy Kerr, FRSC, FRSB is Professor of Biology at University of Ottawa. His primary research seeks to discover how, why, and when environmental changes harm (or benefit) biodiversity. This work has a global profile. He was trained in Canada and Oxford, where he also served as an elected Senior Research Fellow at Mansfield College and the Environmental Change Institute.
Professor Kerr engages strongly on public science and policy, including the vital need for inclusion. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Royal Society of Biology, and Sigma Xi. He is an executive member of Canada's national science granting council (NSERC), and recently chaired the OECD/Global Science Forum working group on citizen science, among many other leadership roles. He has appeared several times before Parliament to advise Members of Parliament and Government on science policy and on critical advances in conservation science and global change biology, and Kerr has also written many editorials on current science issues in leading newspapers and scientific venues.
