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Professor Crabbe took up his post as Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science in October 2005. Formerly he was Professor of Protein Biochemistry and Head of School at the University of Reading.
Prior to moving to Reading, Professor Crabbe spent 10 years at Oxford University, mostly in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Biochemistry. He is currently a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, Beijing Normal University and at the International Business Faculty of BNU in Zhuhai (China).
He has a long-standing interest in modelling biological systems and has developed a number of computer programs for his field.
In the last ten years he has developed computational models for coral reefs and currently works on the genetics, recruitment, conservation and survival of reef-building corals around Discovery Bay, Jamaica, the MesoAmerican Barrier Reef, and in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia.
In 2006 he won the 6th Aviva / Earthwatch International Award for Climate Change Research and in 2008, the Great Contributors to China Creative Industries Award, presented at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing.
He is a Corporate member of the Council of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology, a Scientific Advisor to the Earthwatch Institute since 2008, and a Patron of Coral Cay Conservation. He has previously served on the Peer Review College and panels of NERC, the EPSRC College, the College of Experts of the MRC, and the Pool of Experts of the BBSRC.
Professor Crabbe is receiving Editor of the journal Computational Biology and Chemistry, and serves or has served on the editorial boards of ten other journals.
He has obtained well over £1 million in grants from research
councils and charities to support his interdisciplinary research related to
computational biology and the environment.
His research has resulted in 154
research publications in refereed journals, 53 books, book chapters and
articles in books, 14 items of commercial software, and numerous invitations
(four in 2010) as Plenary or Keynote speaker at international environmental and
software engineering conferences.
In 2009-2011 he published over ten papers, including those in the highly rated journals PNAS and PLOS One.
In addition, he was a reviewer for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)
and has contributed to four major international reports on the environment and
climate change.
His history of working with industry extends back to 1989 when he won Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) funding to work with Polyhedron Software Ltd on developing Desktop Molecular Modeller, a molecular modelling package for PCs that was marketed successfully worldwide. In 1990, he was a finalist in the Prince of Wales Awards for Innovation.
He is a SCUBA dive instructor level 1, and has also produced several classical recordings, one of which won an award, and has worked in BBC TV and Radio, and on the Science and Art programme of the Wellcome Trust.
As Chair of Governors at Central Bedfordshire Further
Education College, he was responsible for the appointment of a new Principal,
Ali Hadawi CBE. The College was recognized as the most improved further
education college in the country from 2006-2008.
He takes a leading role in charity work, as Chairman of Trustee Directors of the Charity for Access Ability and Communications Technology (AACT), and a Trustee of the Guild of Benevolence of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (formerly the Titanic Fund).
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