Iain Couzin

British scientist

Iain Couzin is a British scientist and currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour and the chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz (Germany). He is known for his work on collective behaviour in animals that aims to understand the fundamental patterns responsible for evolution of such behaviour in taxa as diverse as insects, fish and primates.²

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Born 1974.¹

Companies

Max Planck SocietyBoard member Jul 1, 2019 to now²¹

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Bath³
Date not recordedUniversity of St Andrews³

Couzin obtained his B.Sc. in biology from the University of St Andrews, followed by a Ph.D. in Biological sciences, from the University of Bath in 1999 under the supervision of Professor Nigel R. Franks. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds from 2000 to 2002 and a Royal Society Research Fellow at Oxford University from 2003 to 2007. Couzin then moved on to faculty positions at Princeton University and then the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, and subsequently the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz.

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Career

Occupation: scientist.¹³

Since 2019Worked at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior⁴
Since 2019Director, Max Planck Society^{4 12}
Since 2015Worked at University of Konstanz^{4 11}
2014 to 2019Director, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology^{4 10}
2007 to 2015Professor, Princeton University^{4 9}
2003 to 2005Worked at University of Oxford Balliol College^{4 8}
2002 to 2005Worked at Princeton University^{4 6}
2002 to 2005Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford^{4 7}
2000 to 2002Postdoctoral researcher, University of Leeds^{4 5}

Personal life

Born1974, Edinburgh¹⁴

Awards

2025Fellow of the Royal Society^{15 18}
2022Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize^{15 17}
2013ZSL Scientific Medal^{15 16}
2009Mohammed Dahleh Symposium¹⁵

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