Ehab Abouheif is Full Professor at the Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada, where he and his lab work on Eco-Evo-Devo, using ant societies to unravel the development and evolution of complex biological systems. He completed his PhD from Duke University in 2002, where his work on the development and evolution of ant societies laid the foundations for Ecological Evolutionary Developmental Biology (also known as Eco-Evo-Devo), an emerging field that seeks to understand how gene-environment interactions influence an organism’s development, ecology and evolution. Before finishing his PhD, Abouheif was recruited as an Assistant Professor at McGill University in Canada. Abouheif completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago (2002-2003) and University of California at Berkeley (2003-2004) before returning home to take up his position at McGill in 2004 as a Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. In 2017, he was named a James McGill Professor.

Abouheif has won several prestigious national and international awards: Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2006), the NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Award (2014), elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Artists, Scholars, and Scientists (2016), and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2017). He is also the founding President of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief for JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.