Ehab Abouheif studied biology at Concordia University, Montreal (BSc, 1993), at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, and at Duke University, Durham, NC. He was a post-doc in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago (2002-03) and in the Department of Integrative Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley (2003-04); Nipam Patel was his supervisor both in Chicago and Berkeley. From 2004 to 2010 he was Assistant Professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, and subsequently Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. He stayed at the KLI in 2011 with a visiting fellowship. He is now a Full Professor at McGill University and has recently been awared a Guggenheim Fellowship and a KLI Visiting Fellowship for his stay at the KLI.

Ehab Abouheif is Full Professor at the Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada, where he and his lab work on Eco-Evo-Devo, using ant societies to unravel the development and evolution of complex biological systems. He completed his PhD from Duke University in 2002, where his work on the development and evolution of ant societies laid the foundations for Ecological Evolutionary Developmental Biology (also known as Eco-Evo-Devo), an emerging field that seeks to understand how gene-environment interactions influence an organism’s development, ecology and evolution. Before finishing his PhD, Abouheif was recruited as an Assistant Professor at McGill University in Canada. Abouheif completed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago (2002-2003) and University of California at Berkeley (2003-2004) before returning home to take up his position at McGill in 2004 as a Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. In 2017, he was named a James McGill Professor.

Abouheif has won several prestigious national and international awards: Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2006), the NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Award (2014), elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Artists, Scholars, and Scientists (2016), and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2017). He is also the founding President of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief for JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.