Andrew Fraser Read FRS is the Senior Vice President for Research, Evan Pugh professor of biology and entomology at Pennsylvania State University and previously was the Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State.
Read was educated at the University of Otago where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984. He moved on to the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1989 for research supervised by Paul H. Harvey.
Read was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads: