Bruce Waldman

Background

Bruce was born on 22 September in 1953.

Education

Bruce studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1975 he became a Bachelor of Science. Also, he was a student at Cornell University. In 1983 he became a Doctor of Philosophy.

Career

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, England, 1983-1984. Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984-1988, Associate Professor, 1988-1992. Lecturer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1992-1994, Senior Lecturer, 1994-2006. Honorary Research Associate, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand, 2007-. Associate Professor, Seoul National University, 2009-2017, Professor, 2017-2019, Senior Researcher, 2019-2022. Professor and Department Head, Oklahoma State University, 2019-.

Achievements

• Achievements include the discovery of kin recognition in amphibians. Studies of chemical and bioacoustic communication. Application of genetic methods to social behavior. Disease ecology and population declines.
  
  Dissertation grantee National Science Foundation, 1979, Research grantee National Science Foundation, 1987-1993, Foundation Research, Science and Technology, New Zealand, 1993-1994, New Zealand Lottery Grants Board Science Research, 1993-1997, Royal Society New Zealand, Marsden Fund, 2000-2007, National Research Foundation Korea, 2010-2022.

Membership

Member Animal Behavior Society, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Society of Naturalists, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand, Korean Research Society of Herpetologists.