Stéphane Boissinot is a Professor of Biology at NYU Abu Dhabi, specializing in evolutionary biology. He employs a combination of field-based, molecular, and computational approaches to tackle fundamental biological questions, focusing on diverse topics such as the evolution of genome size and structure, innate resistance to viral infections, and the biogeography of East African vertebrates. He received his PhD from the University of Montpellier in France, where he conducted research on the evolution of the house mouse. Boissinot also held post-doctoral positions at the University of Texas, where he studied the evolution of color vision in primates, and at the National Institutes of Health, where he investigated mobile DNA elements in humans. Prior to joining NYU Abu Dhabi in 2015, he was a Professor in the Department of Biology at Queens College, City University of New York, from 2003 to 2014.