Malcolm Press
Malcolm Colin Press is a British ecologist, professor and Vice-Chancellor of the Manchester Metropolitan University, in the United Kingdom.Education
Press was educated at the Westfield College, part of the University of London gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental sciences in 1980 followed by a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1983 supervised by John A. Lee.Career and research
Following his PhD, Press was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University College London from 1985 to 1989. He was appointed a Lecturer in 1989 at the University of Manchester, before being promoted to senior lecturer and moving to the University of Sheffield in 1994, where he was a Reader until 1998, then professor of Physiological Ecology from 1998 to 2008. He was appointed Pro-vice-chancellor and Head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham until 2015. He started his position as Vice-Chancellor at MMU in June 2015 where he took over from John Brooks who held the post from 2005 to 2015.
His research investigates the interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts, environmental change in Arctic ecosystems and tropical rainforest ecology. Specifically:Press was president of the British Ecological Society 2007–2009, and was awarded the BES president's medal in 2005. In 2012, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Lord Taylor.
