Bill S. Hansson#
| Membership Number: | 3185 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ice.mpg.de/ext/hopa.html?pers=biha3484 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPICE), Jena, Germany
- 2006 Director, Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
- 2003 - 2006 Associate Dean of the faculty for Landscape planning Horticulture and Agricultural Sciences
- 2001 - 2006 Professor, Head of Chemical Ecology Division, SLU, Alnarp, Sweden
- 1996 - 2001 Swedish National Researcher position in Neurobiology, Chemical Ecology, Department of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
- 1992 - 1996 Associate Professor, Chemical Ecology, Department of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
- 1990 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
- 1989 - 1990 Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona Research Labs, Neurobiology, University Arizona, Tucson, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroethology
- Olfaction
- Evolution
- Behavior
- Insect
- Crustacean
- Drosophila
- Moth
- Chemical Senses
Honours and Awards
- 2014 ISCE Silverstein-Simeone Lecture Award
- 2013 Elected Member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
- 2013 The Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) Givaudan Lecture Award
- 2012 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Professor, honorary Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
- 2009 Letterstedt Prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Swedish Linnaeus Grant (1 million Euros per year for 10 years); Insect Chemical Ecology, Ethology and Evolution
- 2000 International Award of the Jean-Marie Delwart Foundation
- 1998 The Takasago International Research Award in Olfactory Science
- Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture
- Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, UK
- Fellow of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Fellow of the Royal Physiographic Society, Lund, Sweden
