Sebastian Bonhoeffer elected as member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most respected honour societies in the United States, has elected Sebastian Bonhoeffer as its member.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (short: American Academy) aims to honour outstanding personalities from the arts and sciences and to promote the betterment of society. Its founders include John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexander Graham Bell. Among its approximately 5.000 members, there have been more than 250 Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winners since its inception 239 years ago.
"I am deeply honoured and greatly looking forward to meeting other members," Sebastian Bonhoeffer said after the announcement of his election. Bonhoeffer has been a Professor in Theoretical Biology at ETH Zurich since 2005. After studying Music in Basel, he studied Physics in Munich and Vienna before moving to Oxford, where he did his PhD with Martin Nowak and Robert May at the Department of Zoology. His research focuses on using mathematical models in population biology to understand fundamental biological processes. He has worked extensively on population biological models of infectious diseases and the evolution of drug resistance.
The newly elected members will be inducted at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts in October 2019.