Professor John Speakman

Center for Energy Metabolism and Reproduction
Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shenzhen, China

John Speakman is an expert in the molecular basis of mammalian energetics using -omics approaches and whole-body measurements of physiological and metabolic parameters. He is also a triple fellow of the Royal Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences USA. He leads two research groups: one at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, and one at the University of Aberdeen. His work focuses on the causes and consequences of variation in energy balance, and in particular the factors that limit expenditure, the genetic and environmental drivers of obesity and the energetic contribution to ageing. He is an internationally recognised expert in the use of isotope methodologies to measure energy demands and has used these methods on a wide range of wild animals, model species and humans.