Name: Professor Clive Finlayson

Job title: Director Heritage Division

E-mail: jcfinlay@gibraltar.gi

Research Interests

The Neanderthal Extinction.

Agent-based modelling of Pleistocene hominin populations.

Biogeography of hominins.

Climate and ecological dynamics in the Quaternary and their impact on hominin populations.

Multi-scale spatio-temporal distribution patterns in animals.

Distribution patterns at large spatial scales. Currently researching patterns across Afro-European continental and Mediterranean-Atlantic oceanic gradients.

Body size and the composition and structure of communities of vertebrates.

Human Ecology. The integration of the human species within ecological research studies as a way of modelling ecological conservation.

Academic Qualifications

1976. Bachelor of Science (Bsc) Special Honours Degree in Zoology (Class 1). The University of Liverpool.

1980. Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil). The University of Oxford.

1991. Master of Science (MSc) in Museum Studies. The University of Leicester.

Fellowships, Memberships and Awards

1976 Liverpool University Biological Society Prize for best student in the academic year

1976 Recipient of the first David Lack Studentship awarded by the British Ornithologists’ Union

1990. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

2003. Awarded MBE in H.M. the Queen’s New Year Honours

Academic Publications List