Laurent Keller
Laurent Keller is a Swiss evolutionary biologist, myrmecologist and author. Since 1996, he is professor at the University of Lausanne.Life, studies and career
Born and raised in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, he accomplished his studies in biology at the University of Lausanne, after which he was a research associate at the Laboratory of Entomology of the University Paul-Sabatier, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne, a post-doctoral research associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, and again a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Lausanne.
Subsequently, he was nominated Associate Professor of Ecology at the University of Lausanne in 1996, where he later became head of the Institute of Ecology, and was then promoted to Full Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and head of the , positions he has been holding since.
Since August 2013, he is "president elect" of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. He is the society's president since 2015.
He is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.Research
Laurent Keller has contributed to the study of the evolution of eusociality in ants with numerous scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, invited talks and seminars, and appearances in the media.
His research group is aiming to "understand the principles governing the evolution of animal societies and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of social life". Disciplines in which members of his research group are active include animal behaviour, ecology, evolutionary genetics, and genomics.Teaching
He currently teaches "Evolution", "Evolutionary mechanisms " and "Experimental design" at the of the of the University of Lausanne on a regular basis.Contributions
His contributions include over 180 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters in scientific textbooks, and three books such as:
