Joel Grant Kingsolver

Kingsolver integrates environmental physiology, biophysics, evolution, and ecology to study organismal responses and adaptation to complex natural environmental variation, combining field and laboratory experiments with mathematical models. His work illuminates functional mechanisms underlying the adaptive evolution of ecologically important traits such as thermal tolerance, phenotypic plasticity, seasonal polyphenism, body size, and the origin of insect wings. He elucidated the strength and pattern of phenotypic selection in nature and mechanisms of ecological and evolutionary response to climate change. He is an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, past President of the American Society of Naturalists, and past Editor-in-Chief of The American Naturalist.