Tristram Wyatt
British evolutionary biologist and author
Tristram Dick Wyatt (16 December 1956) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is a senior research fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Wyatt researches pheromones and animal behavior.
Education
Wyatt completed a PhD in animal behaviour at University of Cambridge. His 1983 dissertation was titled The ecology of parental care in the saltmarsh beetle Bledius spectabilis.
Academic career
Wyatt was a lecturer at University of Leeds and conducted research fellowships at University of California, Berkeley and Cardiff University. He joined the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education in 1989 as a university lecturer of biological sciences. From 2000 to 2005, Wyatt was University of Oxford's director of distance and online learning. In 2015, he gave a TEDx talk entitled The smelly mystery of the human pheromone. Wyatt is a senior research fellow in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
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