Sir David Read, FRS, is Emeritus Professor of

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in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the

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. His first degree and PhD came from the

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, the latter in 1963.University of Sheffield Academic Staff
/ref> He also serves on the Rothamsted Research Board of Directors. Read's research focuses on plant and fungal physiology and ecology, particularly the biology of root-fungus symbioses.

Honours and awards

Read was elected a

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in 1990 and was formerly its Vice President and Biological Secretary until 2008, when he was succeeded by Professor Dame Jean Thomas. He was the 2002 recipient of the Kempe Award for Distinguished Ecologists. He was knighted in 2007. The same year, he was made an

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