Sergey Gavrilets

Sergey Gavrilets
Born	Сергей Юрьевич Гаврилец Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	United States, Russia
Alma mater	Moscow State University (BSc, 1982; PhD, 1987)
Awards	President's Award, American Society of Naturalists (1999) Guggenheim fellowship (2008) Key Distinguished Lecture, American Genetic Association (2013) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical evolutionary biology, social and cultural evolution
Institutions	Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia INRA, Toulouse, France University of California, Davis University of Tennessee, Knoxville National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
Doctoral advisor	Yuri Svirezhev

Sergey Gavrilets is a Russian-born American physicist turned theoretical biologist, and currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee. He uses mathematical and computational models to study complex biological and social processes. He has made contributions to the study of speciation, sexual selection, fitness landscapes, sexual conflict, social complexity, evolutionary game theory, social norms, homosexuality, social norms, and cultural evolution. He is currently Associate Director for Scientific Activities at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Gavrilets has contributed to the book Evolution: The Extended Synthesis (Edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller, 2010).

Publications

Books

• Gavrilets, S. (2004), Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691119830
• Rice, W.R.; Gavrilets, S.(eds.) (2014), The Genetics and Biology of Sexual Conflict, Cold Spring Harbor, ISBN 978-1-621820-59-8 {{citation}}: |first2= has generic name (help)