William Hughes completed his PhD in 2000, studying the behavioural ecology of leaf-cutting ants and the use of pheromones for pest management. He then spent three years working on social evolution and host-parasite interactions at the University of Copenhagen funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship and the Carlsberg Foundation, before taking up another Marie Curie Fellowship, this time at the Universities of Sydney and Sheffield, working with honeybees. He moved to the University of Leeds as a lecturer in 2006 and was promoted to Reader in 2010. He joined the University of Sussex as a Professor in 2012. 

The Hughes Lab: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/hugheslab/

Research group members:

Eira Watts-Moore

Tom Roberts-McEwen

Marianne Glascott