Ehab Abouheif studied biology at Concordia University, Montreal (BSc, 1993), at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, and at Duke University, Durham, NC. He was a post-doc in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago (2002-03) and in the Department of Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley (2003-04); Nipam Patel was his supervisor both in Chicago and Berkeley. From 2004 to 2010 he was Assistant Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, and subsequently Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. He stayed at the KLI in 2011 with a visiting fellowship. He is now a Full Professor at McGill University and has recently been awared a Guggenheim Fellowship and a KLI Visiting Fellowship for his stay at the KLI