Curriculum Vitae
Shaun Steven Killen
Nationality: Canadian
Born: May 4, 1978
Academic Background and Career
2019-present Professor of Ecophysiology, University of Glasgow
2009-2019 University of Glasgow, UK; Senior Research Fellow
2007-2009 Université Montpellier 2, France; NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow
2002-2007 Memorial University of Newfoundland, Ph.D. (Marine Biology)
Supervisors: Dr. Joseph A. Brown, Dr. A. Kurt Gamperl
Thesis Title: The metabolic cost of behavioural tradeoffs during the early life stages of three species of north Atlantic marine fish
2000-2002 Queen’s University, M.Sc. (Biology)
Supervisor: Dr. Bruce L. Tufts
Thesis Title: Physiological changes in walleye Sander vitreus during live-release angling tournaments
1996-2000 Queen’s University, B.Sc. (Honours; Biology)
Supervisor: Dr. Bruce L. Tufts
Thesis Title: Characterization of carbonic anhydrase in the gills of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss
Awards
2019 Fisheries Society of the British Isles Medal
2017 President’s Medal of the Society for Experimental Biology
Citation Metrics
From Google Citations:
H-index: 45 i10-index: 96 Citations: 8546
Major Grants & Fellowships
2020-2023 NERC Standard Grant (PI)
2016-2020 NERC Highlights Grant (co-I)
2015-2020 European Research Council Starting Grant (PI)
2012-2014 Leadership Fellow of the University of Glasgow
2012-2017 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC; United Kingdom) Advanced Fellowship (PI)
2009-2012 NERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PI)
2009-2011 Royal Society Newton International Fellowship (declined offer)
2009-2011 Danish Natural Science Research Council (Denmark) Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined offer)
2007-2009 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2007 Nominee, Howard Alper Postdoctoral Prize. Rated as the top-ranked postdoctoral candidate in the Life Sciences & Psychology category during the 2007 NSERC sholarships and fellowships competition.
2003-2005 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship B
Invited Institutional Lectures
2024 University of Plymouth, UK
2022 University of Toronto, Missisauga
2022 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Stockhom
2021 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
2019 Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo
2019 School of Biology, University of St Andrews
2018 Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool
2018 School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK
2018 Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2017 Laboratoire Evolution & Diversité Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse
2017 Institute for Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
2016 Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE), Moorea, French Polynesia
2016 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
2016 School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
2016 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
2016 Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
2016 Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland
2016 Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, UK
2015 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
2014 Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
2014 Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, UK
2013 School of Science, University of the West of Scotland, UK
2012 Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK
2012 School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham, UK
2011 Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
2011 Laboratory of Evolutionary Physiology and Behavior, Chongqing Normal University, China
2010 Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
2008 Department of Biology, Université Montpellier II, France
2007 Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
2005 Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
