Hopi Hoekstra

Hopi Hoekstra
Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Incumbent
Assumed office
August 1, 2023
Preceded byClaudine Gay
Personal details
BornJuly 1972
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.A.)
University of Washington (Ph.D)
AwardsNational Academy of Sciences (2016)
Richard Lounsbery Award (2015)
C. Hart Merriam Award (2019)

Danielle "Hopi" Elisabeth Hoekstra (born 1972) is an evolutionary biologist working at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her lab uses natural populations of rodents to study the genetic basis of adaptation.[1][2][3][4] She is the C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts and Sciences and the Xiaomeng Tong and Yu Chen Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University.[5] She is also the Curator of Mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a Harvard College Professor. In 2014, Hoekstra became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.[1] In 2016, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences,[6] and in 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7] Hoekstra became the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in August 2023.[8]

  1. ^ a b "Hoekstra Lab". hoekstra.oeb.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  2. ^ Gorman, James (28 January 2013). "Digging Deep in the DNA". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  3. ^ "One gene, many mutations: Key that controls coat color in mice evolved nine times". Harvard University. Science Daily. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  4. ^ Nair, Prashant (9 June 2015). "QnAs with Hopi Hoekstra" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (23): 7107–7108. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.7107N. doi:10.1073/pnas.1508757112. PMC 4466722. PMID 26039996. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Hopi E. Hoekstra". oeb.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  6. ^ "May 3, 2016: NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected". www.nasonline.org. Archived from the original on May 6, 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  7. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2017 Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members With Their Affiliation at the Time of Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
  8. ^ Rosenberg, John (June 26, 2023). "Hopi Hoekstra Appointed Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean". Harvard Magazine.