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| Born | 26 June 1957  |
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| Fields | Entomology,nutrition |
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Stephen James SimpsonAC FAA FRSNFRS (born 26 June 1957) is an Australian scientist. He is the executive director of Obesity Australia and was the inaugural academic director of theCharles Perkins Centre at theUniversity of Sydney[1] until April 2025.
Stephen James Simpson[2] was born on 26 June 1957 inMelbourne, Australia.
He graduated with a BSc from theUniversity of Queensland in 1978, and completed his PhD atKing's College London in 1982 onlocust feeding physiology,[3] called "The control of food intake in fifth-instarLocusta migratoria L. nymphs".
Simpson spent 22 years working atOxford University, in Experimental Psychology, the Department of Zoology, and theUniversity Museum of Natural History.
He returned to Australia in 2005 as anARC Federation Fellow, joining the School of Biological Sciences at theUniversity of Sydney.
In 2018, Simpson became the executive director of Obesity Australia, the oversight body for the Collective for Action on Obesity,The Obesity Collective[4] and was appointed academic director of the newly-openedCharles Perkins Centre at Sydney University in June 2014.[5][6]
Simpson co-wrote, narrated, and presented of the four-partABC TV documentary seriesGreat Southern Land, broadcast in September 2012. The series was directed byLuke Eve.[7]
He has also co-authored articles for newspapers, such as one about the "obesity crisis" inThe Age in April 2015.[8]
Simpson has co-authored two science communication books,The Nature of Nutrition: A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity (Princeton University Press,[9] October 2012), andEat Like the Animals: what nature teaches us about the science of healthy eating (HarperCollins,[10] March 2019), which has been translated into 10 languages.