Dr. Hofmann completed his PhD research at Leipzig University and the Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Seewiesen. He completed postdoctoral training with Russ Fernald at Stanford and has spent his career as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. While there, he has been integrally involved in a variety of Centers on the Austin campus, including serving as co-director of the Center for Brain, Behavior, and Evolution at UT Austin, and founding the recently established Center for Biomedical research support there. He has also taught in and co-directed the prestigious Neural Systems and Behavior summer course at Woods Hole and is a frequent speaker at a variety of other workshops, summer courses, and speaker series. A behavioral neuroscientist, Dr. Hofmann incorporates cutting-edge molecular techniques with classic comparative neuroethological approaches to study social behavior in a naturalistic and organismal context. His work in cichlid fishes addresses the evolution of physiological mechanisms underlying complex social behaviors. To date, Dr. Hofmann has published 115 primary research articles, reviews, and book chapters on this work. A committed mentor, he has trained a dozen graduate students, a dozen postdocs, and myriad undergraduates.