BBSRC Council member
Professor Guy Poppy is a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Council.
A graduate of Imperial College and the University of Oxford, Professor Poppy worked at Rothamsted Research before joining the University of Southampton in 2001.
Guy has twice served as Associate Vice President for Interdisciplinary research at Southampton and prior to this as Head of the School of Biological Sciences.
He was a member of the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014 and REF2021) panel assessing the quality of agriculture, food and veterinary science in the UK.
Professor Poppy served as the Food Standards Agency’s inaugural Chief Scientific Adviser from 2014 to 2020 and has published extensively on food systems and food security.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of Bath in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021 and made a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2022.
Guy has served as BBSRC’s Deputy Executive Chair and was appointed interim Executive Chair in 2023 for 12 months.
Last updated: 25 October 2024