Brian Heap

Sir Robert Brian Heap (born 27 February 1935) is a British biological scientist.

He was educated at New Mills Grammar School in the Peak District, Derbyshire, and the University of Nottingham (where he earned his BSc and PhD). He has an MA and a ScD from the University of Cambridge and Honorary DScs from Nottingham (1994), York (2001) and St Andrews (2007).

Career

1960: University Demonstrator, University of Cambridge 1963: Lalor Research Fellow, ARC Institute of Physiology, Babraham Institute, Cambridge 1964-95: Staff Member, AFRC Institute of Physiology, Babraham, serving as Head, Dept of Physiology, 1976; Head of Cambridge Research Station, 1986; Director Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge and Edinburgh, 1989–93; Director of Science, BBSRC, Swindon 1991–94 and Director BBSRC Babraham Institute, 1993–94. 1994-2001: visiting senior fellow, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. He has published on endocrine physiology, biotechnology, sustainable consumption and production, and science advice for policy makers.

He was the Master of St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, from 1996 until 2004 and has been a Special Professor in Animal Physiology at the University of Nottingham since 1988 until 2016. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, and an Associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.