Hans A. Hofmann

Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology

Fellow, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology

Education and Professional Experience

2001-2006 Bauer Genome Fellow and Principal Investigator, Bauer Center for Genomics Research, Havard University.

1997-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Russell Fernald, Stanford University.

1993-1997 Doctoral student with Dr. Franz Huber, Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen, and Dr. Klaus Schildberger, Department of Zoology , University of Leipzig.

1989-1993 M.S. in Biology at University of Tübingen. Advisors: Drs. Jochen Zeil and Deszö Varjú.

1987-1989 Undergraduate studies at the University of Würzburg.

Honors and Awards

2008           Frank A. Beach Early Career Award, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.

2008           Selected as Co-Vice Chair (for 2011) and Co-Chair (for 2013) of the Gordon Conference in Neuroethology

2008-2010 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (in Neuroscience).

2008-2009 Dwight W. and Blanche Faye Reeder Centennial Fellowship in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology.

2000           Grass Foundation Fellow in Neuroscience at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (MA).

1997-1999  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) postdoctoral fellowship (Forschungsstipendium).

Professional Organizations

Society for Neuroscience

International Society for Neuroethology

International Society for Behavioral Ecology

J. B. Johnston Club for Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

Short Bio

Dr. Hans Hofmann studied biology at the University of Würzburg and in 1993 obtained an MS degree in animal physiology from the University of Tübingen. He was awarded a Ph.D. in biology in 1997 from the University of Leipzig. Dr. Hofmann then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, where he began to use cichlid fishes as model system for the study of social behavior. In 2000, he was awarded a prestigious Grass Foundation Fellowship in Neuroscience, which allowed him to pursue his research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. From 2001 to 2006 Dr. Hofmann was a Bauer Genome Fellow and principal investigator at Harvard University. During his time there he created a multitude of genomic resources for cichlid fishes and pioneered the genomic and systems biological analysis of socially controlled behavior within an organismic framework. Dr. Hofmann is currently a faculty member in the Section of Integrative Biology and a Fellow at the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology at The University of Texas at Austin. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. In 2008, he received the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and was awarded the Frank A. Beach Early Career Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.