Günter Wagner
Günter Wagner is a native of Vienna, Austria, and the Alison Richard Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale Univerity. He is a chemical engineer by training and studied zoology and mathematics at the University of Vienna. In 1991, he joined Yale’s Department of Biology as full professor and in 2010 he started the Yale Systems Biology Institute. After his retirement, he resumed teaching and research at the University of Vienna and became a fellow at the Institute of Advance Study at Texas A&M University. His research interests include the evolution of pregnancy, and the evolutionary biology of cancer as well as conceptual aspects of evolutionary biology. Wagner's contributions to evolutionary biology have been recognized with numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992, the Humboldt Prize in 2007, the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal in 2016, and the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
