Anthony Di Fiore

Anthony Di Fiore is a behavioral ecologist, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist who is Centennial Commission Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Primate Molecular Ecology and Evolution Laboratory.

Di Fiore's research program is focused on understanding the diversity of wild primate social systems and the factors influencing primate community structure and coexistence. He directs long-term behavioral and ecological field research on multiple taxa in the primate community of Amazonian Ecuador, investigating the ways in which environmental conditions and the strategies shape individual behavior and social relationships to determine primate societies. He complements field studies with genetic and genomic labwork to study aspects of animal social systems and ecology that are typically difficult to explore through observational studies alone. Beyond his field- and laboratory-based research, Di Fiore also is interested comparative phylogenetic studies, statistical programming, agent-based simulation modeling, and physical computing.

He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis.