Hopi E. Hoekstra received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow... » More

Hopi E. Hoekstra received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. For her dissertation work, she received the Ernst Mayr Award from the Society for Systematic Biology. She then moved to the University of Arizona as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow where she studied the genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice and was awarded the American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Prize. In 2003, she became an Assistant Professor UC San Diego and was named a Beckman Young Investigator. In 2007, she moved to Harvard University, where she is a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Curator of Mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She serves as an associate editor of Evolution, a member of Faculty of 1000, on the council of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the American Genetics Association and the scientific advisory board of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.

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