Prof. Dr. Robert Paxton
Chair of General Zoology
Institut für Biologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Prof. Dr. Robert Paxton | Speaker at SILBERSALZ 2022 (credit: Markus Deutsch/MLU)
A graduate of Sussex University, where he undertook a PhD on sex ratios in solitary wasps in 1985, Robert subsequently held postdoc positions at Cardiff University (UK), researching bees and pollination, Uppsala University (Sweden), working on bee population genetics, then the University of Tübingen, researching the genetics of social evolution. In 2003 took up an academic post at Queen’s University Belfast (UK) from where, in 2010, he moved to the University of Halle, to take up a chair in zoology. His main research areas are: social evolution, host-parasite relations, pollination and conservation genetics, with a taxonomic focus on bees.