Barry Lovegrove

Barry Lovegrove is Professor Emeritus at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He obtained his PhD under the supervision of Gideon Louw from the University of Cape Town in 1987, whereafter he undertook post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Phillips University, Marburg, Germany, the latter on an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. Barry is an evolutionary physiologist and is an National Research Foundation A-rated scientist. He spent his whole career trying to understand the diversity of metabolic adaptations in birds and mammals. His work culminated in the book Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals (Yale University Press, 2019). In 2017 he gave the prestigious Irving-Scholander Memorial Lecture in Fairbanks, Alaska.