Michael W. Bruford

Michael William Bruford (born 6 June 1963) is a Welsh molecular ecologist, conservation biologist and currently professor at Cardiff University's School of Biosciences. His area of research spans from animal wildlife genetics to the management of captive populations and livestock breeds to animal biobanking. After earning his B.Sc. from the University of Portsmouth and his PhD from the University of Leicester, Bruford worked at the Zoological Society of London where he became Head of Conservation Genetics before joining Cardiff University as reader in 1999 and professor in 2001. In addition to his research activities at Cardiff University, he is also director of the Frozen Ark project, which seeks to preserve threatened animal species by means of cryopreservation. rdf:langString