Laurent Keller

Laurent Keller (born 28 February 1961) is a Swiss evolutionary biologist, myrmecologist, and author. Born and raised in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, he accomplished his studies in biology at the University of Lausanne (Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees), after which he was a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Entomology of the University Paul-Sabatier (in Toulouse, France), a Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne, a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, and again a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Lausanne. Subsequently, he was nominated Associate Professor of Ecology at the University of Lausanne in 1996, where he later became Head of the Institute of Ecology (1998), and was then promoted to Full Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolution (in 2000), positions he has been holding since.