"Reading this book feels much like having a friendly faculty mentor answering your initial questions about the myriad responsibilities of a new professor."
Mohamed Noor is the Earl D. McLean Professor and Associate Chair of Biology at Duke University. Having earned his Ph.D. (Ecology and Evolution) in 1996 from the University of Chicago, he did postdoctoral work at Cornell. He joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University in 1998 as an Assistant Professor and held an adjunct appointment in Women†s and Gender Studies. In 2005, he joined the faculty at Duke.
Supported from the outset of his career with continuous NSF and/or NIH funding, his research in evolutionary genetics focuses on the formation of new species and molecular evolution. Dr. Noor has received numerous research-related awards, including the prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London. He is
currently President of the American Genetic Association (2012) and has served in an editorial capacity for nine different journals.