University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences UC Irvine.
Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy School of Humanities UC Irvine.
Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science, Logic & Philosophy of Science, School of Social Sciences UC Irvine.

Awarded 2001 National Medal Of Science and 2010 Templeton Prize.
Member: National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; American Philosophical Society.
Foreign Member: Russian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome; Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain; Mexican Academy of Sciences; Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Received: Gold Honorary Gregor Mendel Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences; Gold Medal of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; Gold Medal of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples; President's Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences; Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award and 150th Anniversary Leadership Medal, AAAS; Medal of the College of France; UCI Medal, University of California; 1998 Distinguished Scientist Award, SACNAS; and Sigma Xi's William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, 2000.
Honorary Degrees: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina); Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic); University of Athens (Greece); Universities of Bologna and Padua (Italy); University of Warsaw (Poland); “Far East National University” (Vladivostok, Russia); Universities of Barcelona, Las Islas Baleares, Leon, Madrid, Pais Vasco, Salamanca, Valencia, and Vigo (Spain).
Additionally, I am interested in the philosophy of biology and in bioethics, as well as in the relationships between science and religion, including the teaching of evolution in the schools.