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Susan C. Alberts is the Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor at Duke University, specializing in biology and evolutionary anthropology. Her research primarily investigates the evolution of social behavior among mammals, with a specific focus on the social behavior, demography, life history, and behavioral endocrinology of wild primates. The main subject of her study is a baboon population in Amboseli, Kenya, which is recognized as one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world, ongoing since 1971. She has held various academic appointments, including being a faculty member at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Duke Population Research Center. Additionally, she is a faculty research scholar at the Center on Population Health and Aging and is involved with the Duke Initiative on Science and Society. Alberts has received multiple grants for her research, focusing on gene regulation and social relationships in nonhuman primate models, and has been recognized with several accolades, including the International Frontiers Knowledge Award.
Duke University • Durham, NC
Leading research in evolutionary biology and social behavior.
Duke University • Durham, NC
Teaching and conducting research in Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)