Rate My Professor Craig White

White leads the Evolutionary Physiology Research Group, using manipulative experiments, comparative studies, experimental evolution, and quantitative genetic analyses to examine traits including body size, metabolic rate, water loss, and breathing patterns across more than 60 species, mainly insects but also marine invertebrates, arthropods, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Current research addresses the evolution of periodic ventilation in insects, macrophysiological and allometric variation in energy expenditure, and physiological influences on community structure, with study species such as slime moulds, scarab beetles, bumble bees, cockroaches, air-breathing fish, rainbowfish, cane toads, Drosophila, and benthic marine invertebrates. He has produced nearly 200 publications, with over 14,000 citations on Google Scholar. Key works include “Physiological plasticity increases resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change” (Nature Climate Change, 2015; 1,323 citations), “Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass^2/3” (PNAS, 2003; 904 citations), “Moving towards acceleration for estimates of activity-specific metabolic rate in free-living animals: the case of the cormorant” (Journal of Animal Ecology, 2006; 876 citations), “Fish reproductive-energy output increases disproportionately with body size” (Science, 2018; 753 citations), and “Allometric scaling of mammalian metabolism” (Journal of Experimental Biology, 2005; 536 citations). His contributions align with UN Sustainable Development Goals 3, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15.