Josephine M. Pemberton FRS[3] is a British evolutionary biologist.

She is Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh,[5] where she conducts research in parentage analysis, pedigree reconstruction, inbreeding depression, parasite resistance, and quantitative trait locus (QTL) detection in natural populations.

[6] She has worked primarily on long-term studies of soay sheep[7][8] on St Kilda, and red deer on the island of Rùm.

[9][10][11][12] Pemberton was educated at the University of Oxford (where she read Zoology[1]) and the University of Reading where she was awarded a PhD in 1983 for research on the population genetics of fallow deer[13] supervised by Robert H.

[6] Pemberton was awarded the Molecular Ecology Prize in 2011[1] and EMBO Membership in 2014.