Anurag Agrawal (ecologist)

Anurag Agrawal (born 1972) is an American professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and entomology who has written over a 150 peer-reviewed articles, which earned him an h-index of 74. He is the author of a popular science book, Monarchs and Milkweeds from Princeton University Press, and is currently the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University.

Not to be confused with Indian pulmonologist Anurag Agrawal.
Anurag Agrawal
At the San Antonio Book Festival (March 2017)
Born1972
Known forStudies of plant-animal interactions, especially milkweeds and monarch butterflies
AwardsEcological Society of America, R.H. MacArthur Award
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsCornell University

Life

Agrawal was born in 1972 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He obtained both BA (Biology) and MA (Conservation Biology) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania after working with Daniel Janzen. In 1999 he earned a Ph.D. in population biology from the University of California, Davis working with Rick Karban. He then became a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam. A year later he became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the former Department of Botany, and since 2004 he is professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Entomology at Cornell University.[1] He publishes with a fictitious middle initial (A.) and is sometime confused with Canadian Evolutionary Biologist, Aneil Agrawal.

Research

His work is focused on the ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions, including aspects of herbivory, community ecology, phenotypic plasticity, chemical ecology, coevolution, and phylogenetics. His current research includes work on NY State biodiversity, the ecology of invasive plants, the biology of monarch butterflies, and the evolution of plant defense strategies. In addition to many scientific papers, his recent book Monarchs and Milkweeds has received acclaim from a wide audience , including the National Outdoor Book Award.

Awards

1999 Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists

2004 Early Career Award, National Science Foundation

2006 George Mercer Award, Ecological Society of America

2009 David Starr Jordan Prize [1]

2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2013 Founders Memorial Award, Entomological Society of America

2016 Robert H. MacArthur Award, Ecological Society of America[2]

2017 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

2018 Silverstein-Simeone Lecture Award, International Society for Chemical Ecology

Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award 2019

References
  1. "Anurag Agrawal". David Starr Jordan. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  2. "All Awards Table". ESA. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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