Hopi Hoekstra

Hopi Hoekstra is a distinguished academic currently serving as the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Alexander Agassiz Professor at Harvard University, positions held since January 2007. Additionally, Hopi Hoekstra is the Curator of Mammals at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. Previously, Hopi Hoekstra was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from December 2013 to August 2023 and an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego from July 2003 to December 2006. Education includes a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Washington, and a B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.