He received his Bachelor's degree in biology before completing a Master's degree with Trish Schulte and then a PhD in 2009 with Bill Milsom at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He moved on to continue his postdoc training with Ian Johnston at the University of St Andrews, UK. Scott received the Animal Section Presidents' Medal from the Society for Experimental Biology in 2012, he was an author on the Journal of Zoology Paper of the Year in 2015 and he was awarded the Robert G. Boutilier New Investigator Award by the Canadian Society of Zoologists in 2017. Â© 2017. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.