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Profile
| Academic position | Emeritus |
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| 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 |
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| City | Copenhagen |
| Institution | University of Copenhagen |
| Institute | Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution |
| Homepage | https://www1.bio.ku.dk/english/research/ecology-evolution/ |
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 |
Programme(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. |