Josephine Pemberton
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Pemberton in 2017
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| Thesis | An investigation into the population genetics of British fallow deer (Dama dama L.) (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert H. Smith[1][4] |
| Other academic advisors | Sam Berry |
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Josephine M. Pemberton FRS[3] is a British evolutionary biologist. She is Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh,[5] where she conducts research in parentage analysis, pedigree reconstruction, inbreeding depression, parasite resistance, and quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection in natural populations.[6] She has worked primarily on long-term studies of soay sheep[7][8]onSt Kilda, and red deer on the island of Rùm.[9][10][11][12]
Pemberton was educated at the University of Oxford (where she read Zoology[1]) and the University of Reading where she was awarded a PhD in 1983 for research on the population geneticsoffallow deer[13] supervised by Robert H. Smith.[4]
After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcheratUniversity College London and the University of Cambridge.[6] This was followed by appointments as a BBSRC Advanced Fellow in Cambridge and Edinburgh, before being appointed a Lecturer in 1994 at the University of Edinburgh,[6] where she has worked ever since. Her research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[6]
Pemberton was awarded the Molecular Ecology Prize in 2011[1] and EMBO Membership in 2014.[2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[3]
She was awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2018.[14] and was named Chair of Natural History in 2020.
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