Timothy Coulson

Timothy Neal Coulson is a biologist whose research focuses on how environmental change impacts the ecology and evolutionary biology of animals. He is the current Professor of Zoology and joint head of the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.

Life and career
He held a series of positions becoming Professor of Population Biology at Imperial College London in 2007. He was appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow of Jesus College Oxford in 2013. He was head of Department of Zoology, University of Oxford between 2018 and 2021 and is currently joint head of Department of Biology, University of Oxford along with Mark Fricker.

Coulson has been chief editor of Journal of Animal Ecology and Ecology Letters, a member of council of the University of Oxford, and is currently Vice President (membership) of the British Ecological Society.

Awards and honours

 * Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal (2007)
 * Imperial College Post-graduate Huxley Memorial Medal (2008)
 * Per Brinck Award (2012)
 * Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012)
 * British Ecological Society Marsh Award (2012)

Selected publications

 * Coulson, T. et al. (2001). Age, sex, density, winter weather, and population crashes in Soay sheep. Science, 292(5521), 1528-1531. DOI: 10.1126/science.292.5521.1528
 * Cubaynes, S. ... & Coulson, T. (2022). Disease outbreaks select for mate choice and coat color in wolves. Science, 378(6617), 300-303. DOI: 10.1126/science.abi8745
 * Coulson, T., Mace, G. M., Hudson, E., & Possingham, H. (2001). The use and abuse of population viability analysis. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 16(5), 219-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02137-1