Alan M. Roberts

Alan Roberts
Alan Roberts at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
Born	Alan Madoc Roberts (1941-08-24) 24 August 1941 (age 75) Rugby, Warwickshire
Fields	Zoology Xenopus Neuroanatomy Electrophysiology
Institutions	University of Bristol Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Thesis	Recurrent Inhibition in the Giant Fibre System of the Crayfish and its Effect on the Excitability of the Escape Response (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Ted Bullock
Influences	Hans Lissmann George E. Coghill
Notable awards	FRS (2015)
Website www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/alan-roberts

Alan Madoc Roberts (born 1941)FRS is Emeritus Professor of Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Roberts was educated at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences (Zoology) at Trinity College, Cambridge. He went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he was awarded a PhD in 1967 for research supervised by Theodore Holmes Bullock on the escape response of Crayfish.

Roberts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads: