Alan M. RobertsAlan Madoc Roberts is an English academic serving as Emeritus professor of Zoology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol.EducationRoberts was educated at Rugby School and the University of Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences (Zoology) at Trinity College, Cambridge. He went on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he was awarded a PhD in 1967 for research supervised by Theodore Holmes Bullock on the escape response of Crayfish.Awards and honoursRoberts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads: