Bert Hölldobler#
| Membership Number: | 1556 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://sols.asu.edu/people/bert-Hoelldobler |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2004 Foundation Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- 2002-2008 Andrew D. White Professor at Large, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- 1989-2004 Professor of Zoology (Ordinarius), University of Würzburg (FRG)
- since 1989 Adjunct Professor of the University of Arizona
- 1986-1987 US-Senior Scientist Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1982-1990 Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University
- 1973-1990 Professor of Biology, Harvard University
- 1971-1972 Professor of Zoology at the University of Frankfurt
Fields of Scholarship
- Behavioral physiology and ecology
- Sociobiology
- Biology of social insects
- Chemical ecology
- Evolutionary biology
Honours and Awards
- Awards
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1980)
- Pulitzer Prize (1991) for The Ants together with Edward O. Wilson
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (1990)
- U.S. Senior Scientist Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Werner Heisenberg-Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Körberpreis for the European Science (1996)
- Karl Ritter von Frisch Medal and Science Prize of the German Zoological Society (1996)
- Benjamin Franklin-Wilhelm v. Humboldt Prize of the German-American Academic Council ( 1999)
- Honorary doctor Biology of the University of Konstanz (2000)
- Order of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (2000)
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2003)
- Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftspreis (2004)
- Treviranus-Medal of the Verband deutscher Biologen (vdbiol) (2006)
- Lichtenberg-Medal (2010)
- Ernst-Jünger-Prize for Entomology Baden-Württemberg (2010)
- Cothenius-Medal in Gold of the Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (2011)
- Exemplar Award by the American Animal Behavior Society (2013)
- Academic associations
- Fellow of the American Animal Behavior Society (1992)
- Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1986 korrespondierend, 1995 ordentlich)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Deutsche Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina (1975)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (1979)
- Academia Europaea (1994)
- Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften ( 1995)
- National Academy of Sciences (USA) (1998)
