Roger Kenneth Butlin is a British evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Sheffield.
He served as Editor of Heredity from 2009 to 2012, and President of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology from 2013 to 2015.
Butlin obtained his PhD in 1983 from the University of Nottingham working in the lab of Tom Day.
Butlin then took a postdoctoral position in Godfrey Hewitt's lab for two years at the University of East Anglia[3] In 1987 Butlin took a Royal Society Research Fellowship position at the University of Wales in Cardiff.
Butlin's work is concerned with understanding the genetics of speciation, focusing on reproductive isolation.