Speakman’s 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 has received many honours for his work, which includes, in 2004 being an Elected Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE); 2008 Elected Fellow UK Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and 2009 Elected Fellow the Royal Society of Arts in London (FRSA); 2018 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). And more recently, 2020 TOPS award the premier research award by the US Obesity Society.
He holds a Chair in Zoology, based at the University of Aberdeen and also, in 2020 he moved to the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenzhen, China where he leads an active research team at the Center for Energy Metabolism and Reproduction and Head of the Shenzhen Key laboratory of Metabolic Health.
