Iain
Couzin is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, the DFG
Excellence Cluster ‘Centre for the
Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour’, and
Chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour at the
University of Konstanz, Germany. Previously he was an Assistant- and then
Full-Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at
Princeton University, and prior to that a Royal Society University Research
Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and a Junior
Research Fellow in the Sciences at Balliol College, Oxford.
His
work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective
behavior, and consequently his research includes the study of a wide range of
biological systems, from insect swarms to fish schools and primate groups. In recognition of his research he has been recipient of the Searle
Scholar Award in 2008, top 5 most cited papers of the decade in animal behavior
research 1999-2010, the Mohammed Dahleh Award in 2009,
Popular Science’s "Brilliant 10” Award in 2010, National Geographic
Emerging Explorer Award in 2012, the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society
of London in 2013 and Clarivate Analytics (formerly
Thompson Reuters) Global Highly Cited Researcher in 2018.