Jane Reid is an evolutionary ecologist from the UK, she is International Chair Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)^[1][2] in Trondheim, Norway and is also Professor of Population & Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Aberdeen.^[3]

Reid was educated at the University of Cambridge studying Natural Sciences, she then did a PhD in behavioural ecology at the University of Glasgow. She did a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia and then a Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2006 she moved to the University of Aberdeen as a Royal Society University Research Fellow^[4] and was made Professor of Population & Evolutionary Ecology in 2014. In 2019 she was made International Chair Professor at NTNU.^[5]

Reid looks evolutionary and population ecology, in particular of birds, her research has included the evolutionary implications of song sparrow mating behaviours^[6] and the effect of weather on bird populations.^[7]

Chapter 39 Don't just sit there reading, in Curious About Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork by Tim Burt and Des Thompson, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.^[8]

• Awarded the Zoological Society of London's Scientific Medal in 2012.^[9]
• Awarded the Marsh Award for Ornithology by the British Trust for Ornithology and the Marsh Christian Trust in 2013.^[10]
• Awarded the University of Aberdeen Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research in 2013.^[11]
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017.^[12]

• University of Aberdeen profile