Prof. Dr. Jacobus J. Boomsma

Profile

Academic position	Emeritus
Research fields	Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Systematics and Morphology (Zoology),Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
Keywords	Social Evolution, Co-evolutionary processes, Conservation biology, Insect societies and their parasites and mutualist, Mating systems of insects and vertebrates
Honours and awards	2020: Distinguished Scientist under the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative 2019: Elected Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018: Hamilton Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement; International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) 2016: Fellowship Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (for academic year 2018-2019) 2013: Newton Abraham Visiting Professor and Fellowship of Lincoln College, Oxford Uni 2010: Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Helsinki 2001: Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Stiftung, Germany 1998: Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Current contact address

Country	Denmark
City	Værløse

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze	Institut für Zoologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Prof. Dr. Bert Hölldobler	Lehrstuhl für Verhaltensphysiologie und Soziobiologie (Zoologie II), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
Start of initial sponsorship	01/01/2002

Programme(s)

2001	Humboldt Research Award Programme