Professor Kevin Laland

Kevin N. Laland received his Ph.D. in psychology from University College London, UK, in 1990. After a Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biology at the University of California-Berkeley, USA, and a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Fellowship and Royal Society University Research Fellowship in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, UK, he moved to the University of St Andrews, UK, where he is currently Professor of Biology.

He studies behavioural and evolutionary biology, particularly niche construction, social learning and gene–culture co-evolution, using a range of theoretical and empirical methods. He is the author of over 150 scientific articles and 6 books, and is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.