Daniel J. C. Kronauer

Daniel J. C. Kronauer was born in Heidelberg and obtained his PhD in 2007 from the University of Copenhagen, where he worked on the population genetics of army ants. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, he joined the faculty at Rockefeller University in New York City, where he is currently an Associate Professor and head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior. His group studies the evolution, genetics and neurobiology of social behavior in ants. Kronauer is the recipient of numerous research awards and a passionate wildlife photographer in his spare time. "Army Ants - Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters" is his first book.