John Hildebrand

John G. Hildebrand is International Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and Regents Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He earned his B.A. (biology) at Harvard University and Ph.D. (biochemistry) at the Rockefeller University and after 16 years of faculty service at Harvard and Columbia Universities, moved to Arizona in 1985 as founding head of the Division of Neurobiology (1985-2009; later the Department of Neuroscience 2009-2013). His research fields are insect neurobiology and behavior, olfaction, chemical ecology, and the biology of arthropod vectors of pathogens. A past president of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, International Society of Chemical Ecology, and International Society for Neuroethology, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, German National Academy of Sciences 'Leopoldina’, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and The World Academy of Sciences; an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (UK); and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Entomological Society of America, and the International Society for Neuroethology.