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Danielle "Hopi" Elisabeth Hoekstra (born 1972) is an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, 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.
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. 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. In 2016, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hoekstra became the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in August 2023.
Hoekstra was born in 1972 to a family of Dutch ancestry. Hoekstra's first name "Hopi" is derived from a Dutch term of endearment. Hoekstra attended Los Altos High School in California.
She attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where she initially intended to study political science. She has stated that at one point she wanted to become the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, but she was drawn into biology by a class on biomechanics taught by Robert J. Full. She went on to work in Full's lab, studying the biomechanics of animal locomotion. One factor for choosing UC Berkeley was that she wanted to play Pac10 volleyball, which she did for two years.
Hoekstra received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. Before her graduate studies, she researched grizzly bears for a year in Yellowstone National Park. She obtained her Ph.D. in Zoology as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. For her postdoctoral work, she studied the genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice at the University of Arizona. In 2003, she became an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego.
In 2007, she was hired by Harvard University, where she received tenure in 2010. She has served on the advisory board of several foundations, including Searle Scholars Program and Max Plank Society, magazines, including Scientific American and Quanta and journals, including PNAS, Current Biology, PLoS Genetics, Development, and bioRxiv.
In June 2023, she was named as the Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, succeeding Claudine Gay, who became president of Harvard University the month before. Hoekstra assumed office on August 1, 2023.
Hopi Hoekstra
Danielle "Hopi" Elisabeth Hoekstra (born 1972) is an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, 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.
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. 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. In 2016, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hoekstra became the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences in August 2023.
Hoekstra was born in 1972 to a family of Dutch ancestry. Hoekstra's first name "Hopi" is derived from a Dutch term of endearment. Hoekstra attended Los Altos High School in California.
She attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where she initially intended to study political science. She has stated that at one point she wanted to become the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, but she was drawn into biology by a class on biomechanics taught by Robert J. Full. She went on to work in Full's lab, studying the biomechanics of animal locomotion. One factor for choosing UC Berkeley was that she wanted to play Pac10 volleyball, which she did for two years.
Hoekstra received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. Before her graduate studies, she researched grizzly bears for a year in Yellowstone National Park. She obtained her Ph.D. in Zoology as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. For her postdoctoral work, she studied the genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice at the University of Arizona. In 2003, she became an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego.
In 2007, she was hired by Harvard University, where she received tenure in 2010. She has served on the advisory board of several foundations, including Searle Scholars Program and Max Plank Society, magazines, including Scientific American and Quanta and journals, including PNAS, Current Biology, PLoS Genetics, Development, and bioRxiv.
In June 2023, she was named as the Dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, succeeding Claudine Gay, who became president of Harvard University the month before. Hoekstra assumed office on August 1, 2023.