Daniel T. Blumstein is a Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, at UCLA, and UCLA's Institute of the Environment & Sustainability. He co-directs UCLA’s Evolutionary Medicine Program and is the President of the Board of Trustees of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Between 2009 and 2016 he was the Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He received his undergraduate degrees in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology (Magna Cum Laude), and in Environmental Conservation (Cum Laude) at The University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Animal Behavior at the University of California Davis, and was a DAAD post-doctoral fellow at the University of Marburg (Germany), an NIH-NRSA at the University of Kansas, and an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University (Australia). He has studied animal behavior and conservation science throughout  in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, French Polynesia, Germany, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States. He was a Fulbright Fellow (to Pakistan) and is an elected Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Animal Behavior Society. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards including the UCLA Faculty Gold Shield Award for extraordinary accomplishment in undergraduate teaching and research, and the Animal Behavior Society’s Quest Award for seminal contributions to the study of behavior. He is the author of eight books and over 500 scholarly publications. He was an Editor of the journal Animal Behaviour, and is currently an Associate Editor of the Quarterly Review of Biology, and is (or was) on the Editorial Boards of Behavioral Ecology, Biology Letters, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, and Ethology. He is the founding editor in chief of Frontiers in Conservation Science. A major thrust of his research works to integrate different fields and apply ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral principles to applied questions.