Robert Poulin is an evolutionary ecologist specialising in the ecology of parasitism. He is a professor of zoology at the University of Otago and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Robert Poulin
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Canada
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| Academic background | |
| Education | McGill University Université Laval |
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| Discipline | Evolutionary ecology |
| Sub-discipline | Parasitism specialist |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
Poulin grew up in Canada, taking his bachelor's degree in aquatic biology at McGill University, Montreal and gaining his doctorate at Université Laval, Quebec City. He became a researcher in Quebec.[1] He moved to New Zealand in 1992, where he is a professor of zoology, leading a research group studying the ecologyofparasites at the University of Otago.[2]
He has written numerous papers and book chapters: his Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites has been cited at least 2500 times; his co-written Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links has been cited over 990 times; his The diversity of parasites has been cited over 760 times; his Parasite Biodiversity and Parasitism and group size in social animals: a meta-analysis have each been cited over 600 times; 14 other works have been cited over 300 times each. In all he has been cited over 44,000 times, with an h-index over 105 and an i10-index over 550.[3]
Poulin is married with two sons.[1]
Poulin became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2001, and won the New Zealand Association of Scientists' Research Medal the same year.[1] In 2002 he was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.[1] In 2007 he won the Robert Arnold Wardle Award of the Canadian Society of Zoologists.[1] In 2011 he won the Hutton Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[1] He was awarded the University of Otago's Distinguished Research Medal in 2013.[1]
The North African tortoise pinworm Tachygonetria poulini is named for him,[1] as is the New Zealand parasitic fluke Maritrema poulini,[4] and the parasitic cryptogonimid trematode Siphoderina poulini.[5]
