Prof. Lynn Dicks is an Associate Professor in Animal Ecology at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of Selwyn College and leads the Agroecology Research Group in the Zoology Department. She is a Trustee of the Royal Entomological Society, a Board Member of Natural England, and a member of the Science Advisory Council for the Cool Farm Alliance. She was a Co-ordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Thematic assessment of pollinators, pollination and food production and has authored over 90 scientific publications on insect conservation, agricultural biodiversity and evidence-based conservation in agricultural landscapes. She has a degree from Oxford University in Biological Sciences (1995) and a PhD from Cambridge University (2002) on the ecology of flower-visiting insects.
