Background
Meyer, Axel was born on August 4, 1960 in Mölln, Germany. Came to the United States, 1982, permanent resident, 1993. Son of Diethard and Ingrid (Ollmann) Meyer.
professor Zoologist evolutionary biologist
Meyer, Axel was born on August 4, 1960 in Mölln, Germany. Came to the United States, 1982, permanent resident, 1993. Son of Diethard and Ingrid (Ollmann) Meyer.
Meyer attended the gymnasium (high school) Katharineum in Lübeck. He was an undergraduate at the Universität Marburg (1979–1982), and completed his undergraduate thesis at the Universität Kiel and the University of Miami, Florida (1982). He received both his master"s and Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Zoology at the University of California Berkeley in 1984 and 1988 respectively.
Meyer is best known for his work on the evolution and adaptive radiation of African cichlid fishes, fish-specific genome duplications, molecular phylogenetics of vertebrates, and the role of ecological and sexual selection in speciation. He spent one year as a visiting student in Harvard University"s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (1986–1987). In 1993 he received tenure and was promoted to associate professor
Meyer joined the Universität Konstanz Department of Biology as a full professor in 1997.
Meyer is active in the communication of science to the public. He has written more than 45 articles for major German newspapers including Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
In addition, he contributed a weekly column, Quantensprung, on matters related to science and evolution to the Handelsblatt from 2005-2010. The first 100 articles of Quantensprung were published in 2008 in the book Evolution ist überall.
Fellow Linnean Society. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society Molecular Biology and Evolution, Society Systematic Biologists, Genetics Society of America, Society Integrative and Comparative Biologists, Society Study of Evolution, Gesellschaft Biological Sytematik, Deutsche Zoological Gesellschaft, European Society Evolutionary Biology, Fisheries Society British Isles.