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Mark Hauber

Board Alumni

Dr. Mark E. Hauber is the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor of Host-Parasite Interactions at the University of Illinois and its Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior. A native of Hungary and a long-term birder, he moved to the USA for college and was educated in ornithology at Yale (BS in Organismal Biology) and Cornell Universities (PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior) and trained at UC Berkeley (Research Miller Fellow in Integrative Biology and Psychology). His first faculty job at the University of Auckland took him to New Zealand where he became a citizen and a conservation scientist working on insular populations of land- and seabirds, as well as studied the consequences of various invasive species control methods on the mainland and offshore archipelagos. Prof. Hauber is the author of 300+ peer-reviewed scientific publications, including works in Science, Nature, eLife, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Animal Conservation, and Conservation Genetics. He also wrote the Book of Eggs (2014 University of Chicago Press) and has been featured in the popular press by the National Public Radio USA, the New York Times, The Guardian, Audubon Magazine, and Quirks and Quarks. His research has received extramural funding from national and international funding agencies repeatedly, including the New Zealand Marsden Fund, the USA National Science Foundation, the Human Frontier Science Program, and the National Geographic Society. Dr. Hauber also served for 4 years as acting Associate Provost for Research at Hunter College and as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the City University of New York System. He was editor-in-chief of Auk: Ornithological Advances and associate/editor of Behavioral Ecology, Ethology, and Marine Biology. Elected as Fellow of both the American Ornithological Society and the Animal Behavior Society, Prof. Hauber has also served scientific societies as program officer and chair for 3 international conferences, including the 2014 biannual meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology in New York City.