Congratulations to 2024 Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, Robert Poulin!
Robert has been a member since 1993 and has made a major contribution to the Society primarily through his long term role as a specialist editor for the International Journal for Parasitology 2001-2003, 2007-2016, one of the longest specialist editors for the Journal and contributing to it in an exemplary fashion. Robert was on the board of IJPPAW from 2012-2016.
His academic record is outstanding, he is a word leader in the field of parasite ecology and evolution, being the author of the standard text in this discipline, now in its second edition including a translation into Japanese and book on parasite diversity co-authored with Prof. Serge Morand. His standing in the international field of parasitology is clearly indicated by being an invited speaker at ICOPA in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, as well as at numerous other international meetings, including being an invited speaker at ASP meetings in 1998, 2007 and 2015. With over 600 publications in international, peer-reviewed journals and with H indices of 83 (Web of Science) or 105 (Google Scholar), his scholarly achievemnets place him in the very highest tier of our discipline. In our view, he is indisputably the pre-eminent leader globally in the area of parasite ecology.
In New Zealand, he has been pivotal in maintaining and advancing ecological and evolutionary parasitological studies through the development of a highly productive research group at the University of Otago, with numerous post-graduate students. This group integrates parasitology in a truly interdisciplinary approach, appying the most cutting-edge theories and methodologies from other disciplines to the study of parasite ecology and evolution.
Conclusion
In view of Robert’s remarkable contributions to parasitology globally as a member of our Society, Robert Poulin is an extremely worthy recipient of the title, Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology.
