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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Animal Systematics and Morphology,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 |
Current contact address
| Country | Denmark |
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| City | Copenhagen |
| Institution | University of Copenhagen |
| Institute | Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution |
| Homepage | http://www.bi.ku.dk/staff/jjb |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze | Institut für Zoologie, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Bert Hölldobler | Lehrstuhl für Verhaltensphysiologie und Soziobiologie (Zoologie II), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2002 |
Program(s)
| 2001 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Dr. Jacobus Boomsma is one of the scientific leaders in insect sociobiology and evolutionary ecology. His unique talent of combining theoretical explanations with rigorous empirical studies has enabled him to make significant contributions to our understanding of the evolution of animal societies. Among his many achievements probably the most influential one is his development of split sex ratio models and his empirical tests of theses models. This work has changed the way we study sex ratio patterns in nature. |