Christian David ThomasFRES FRS (born 9 September 1959) is a past president of theRoyal Entomological Society.^[1] He is also Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at theUniversity of York.^[2]

He completed his first degree (BA) inApplied Biology at theUniversity of Cambridge, followed by an MSc in Ecology at the University of Bangor and aPhD at theUniversity of Texas at Austin.^[3] A Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of York, he also serves as director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, a new £10 million transdisciplinary research centre funded for 10 years from 2019.^[4] In July 2012, he was elected as aFellow of the Royal Society.^[5]

• Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction. 2017.ISBN 978-0241240755

• 1959 births
• Living people
• 20th-century British biologists
• 21st-century British biologists
• Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society
• Fellows of the Royal Society
• Presidents of the Royal Entomological Society
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• Alumni of Bangor University
• University of Texas at Austin alumni
• Academics of the University of York

• Use dmy dates from April 2022