Michael Siva-Jothy

Michael 'Mike' Siva-Jothy is an entomologist in the UK, he is Professor of Entomology at the University of Sheffield. Education and career Siva-Jothy was educated at University College London graduating with a BSc in 1981, he then did a PhD at the University of Oxford graduating in 1985. He moved to Nagoya University in Japan as a Royal Society & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow until 1989, when he moved back to the UK to work as an Agricultural and Food Research Council research associate at University College London. In 1990 Siva-Jothy moved to the University of Sheffield to be a lecturer, where he has remained, progressing to Senior Lecturer and Reader, Professor in 2006 and was the Head of the Department of Plant and Amimal Sciences from 2012 to 2018. Research Siva-Jothy's research looks at the sexual and life history traits of arthropods. He worked on the mechanism of sperm competition in libellulid dragonflies for his PhD where he showed that Ecological drivers such as operational sex ratio selected for sperm competition mechanisms that were thorough (but took a long time) or were swift but did not result in long-lasting sperm precedence.