Joan E. Strassmann

Joan E. Strassmann is a North American evolutionary biologist and the Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology at the Washington University in St. Louis.[1] She is known for her work on social evolution and particularly how cooperation prospers in the face of evolutionary conflicts.[1]

Her dissertation research explored theories of social behavior and evolution using individually marked social wasps in wild colonies.[2] In 2011, Strassmann joined the Biology Department of Washington University in St. Louis.[3] after retiring from Rice University where she worked for the previous 31 years.

She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013).[4] She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2004),[5] was elected a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society (2002), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004),[6] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), and served as president of the Animal Behavior Society (2012).[7]

Honors

References

  1. 1 2 "Joan Strassmann:". Department of Biology. Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biology. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Strassmann, Joan (1979). "Kin selection and the population biology of the social paper wasp Polistes exclamans.". Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.
  3. ↑ "Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure" (Press release). Washington University in St. Louis. April 5, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
  4. ↑ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected" (Press release). National Academy of Sciences. April 30, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ "EurekAlert!". Rice biologists elected AAAS Fellows. October 28, 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Animal Behavior Society Officers". Animal Behavior Society. 2012. Archived from the original on May 22, 2012.

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