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Dr. James Hicks is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Irvine. As a broadly trained integrative physiologist, Jim is internationally recognized for his research on the comparative and evolutionary physiology of the vertebrate cardiopulmonary system. He has authored more than 120 scientific articles on subjects ranging from the evolution of the vertebrate heart to physiological responses to microgravity and sports-related concussion. His research has been widely featured in the news media. In addition to his academic work, Jim has served as a consultant to the television and film industries, most notably as the life-science consultant to Disney/Pixar on the Academy Award-winning film WALL-E. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physiological Society, and the California Academy of Sciences. In 2012, he received the American Physiological Society's August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University, Denmark. Dr. Tobias Wang is a professor of Zoophysiology at Aarhus University, and Editor-in-Chief of Acta Physiologica. Tobias has studied respiratory adaptations in air-breathing fish, the high blood pressure in giraffes, digestion in snakes when they digest colossal meals, and has been fascinated by the physiological adaptation that enable animals to thrive in extreme environments, but also the use of exotic animals as models for human diseases. He has authored more than 300 scientific publications and more than 100 popular articles, and he often appears in the popular press.
Tobias is a member of the presidium of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and serves on the national committee that oversees animal experiments in Denmark. He has given the Krogh lectures in both the American Physiological Society and The International Union of Physiological Sciences, as well as the Bidder lecture in Society for Experimental Biology and the Burgh-Daly lecture in The Physiological society. He is on editorial boards of many journals in comparative physiology and has collaborators on most continents. |
