Professor Caroline Pond

Caroline with Polar Bear skull

Professor Caroline Pond is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Caroline Pond was awarded a BA and DPhil Natural Sciences (Zoology) from the University of Oxford University then taught for four years in the Zoology Department and at St Hilda’s College.

Several years in USA in various roles including teaching veterinary gross anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania followed. Then she took a lectureship at the then very new Open University in Milton Keynes UK, becoming Professor of Comparative Anatomy in 2002, mostly writing textbooks and other teaching materials in physiological, comparative and evolutionary biology. Her research investigated natural obesity in wild mammals, birds and reptiles and the anatomical organisation of adipose tissue.

Caroline moved back to Oxford in 2007 and was appointed Honorary Senior Research Associate, Department of Biology, Oxford University in 2008. She joined Green Templeton College as a member of Common Room in 2009 and has been a College Adviser since 2011.

Since retirement from full-time paid work in 2010, she also undertakes a variety of voluntary jobs, including for the university GLAM (Gardens, Libraries and Museums) Volunteering Service in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and other museums and for the Wildlife Conservation and Research Unit at Tubney, part of the Biology Department.

As well as biology, she has a keen interest in the history and architecture of buildings in and around Oxford and thoroughly reviews planning applications for future developments.