Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D., is the Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior at The Rockefeller University. He studies how evolution operates in the rich context of insect societies, focusing on different levels of organization, from the gene and neural circuits, to the individual and the society as a whole. In his lab, Dr. Kronauer works primarily with the clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi to analyze complex social and collective behaviors such as alloparental care and foraging. His lab has sequenced and annotated the species’ genome and transcriptome, and established the first protocols for genome editing in an ant, which now allows them to create and maintain stable knockout and transgenic lines. He has used these and many other methods to begin unravelling the mysteries of how these ants communicate to engage in cooperative behavior, and to determine how genetically identical ants differentiate into different castes and behavioral types to serve various roles in ant societies. Dr. Kronauer received a diploma in biology from the University of Würzburg, in Germany, followed by a Ph.D., in 2007, from the University of Copenhagen. He was elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows, as a junior fellow, in 2008. Since joining Rockefeller in 2011, he has been named a Pew Scholar, a Searle Scholar, a Sinsheimer Scholar, and a Klingenstein Simons Fellow in Neuroscience, and he has received a Director’s New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health. In 2021, he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.