Arizona State University
USA
Dr. Robert Page, Jr.
Dr. Robert E. Page, Jr. is provost of Arizona State University (ASU) and is foundation chair of the School of Life Sciences. He was the vice provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2011-2013) and the founding director of the School of Life Sciences (2004-2011). He joined ASU in 2004, after spending 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, Davis where he served as chair of the Entomology Department from 1999-2004.
His background is in behavior and population genetics, and the focus of his current research is on the evolution of complex social behavior. Using the honey bee as a model, Dr. Page has dissected their complex foraging division of labor at all levels of biological organization, from gene networks to complex social interactions. Dr. Page has published more than 230 research papers and articles, five books, and is listed as a “highly-cited author” by the ISI Web of Knowledge, representing the top half of one percent of publishing scientists.
He received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (the Humboldt Prize) in 1995, the highest honor given by the German government to foreign scientists. In 2010 he was elected to the Leopoldina (the German National Academy of Science), the longest continuing academy in the world. Dr. Page is also an elected foreign member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (1999), a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1991), an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), a fellow of the Entomological Society of America (2012), a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2009-2010), and a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Fellow.