Members
Dario Maestripieri
Professor
Ph.D., in Psychobiology, University of Rome, 1992
Research Interests:
Neuroendocrine, ecological and evolutionary aspects of social behavior in human and nonhuman primates.
Contact Information
Phone: (773) 834-4104
Fax: (773) 702-0320
dario@uchicago.edu
The University of Chicago
5730 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Areas of Research
Dario Maestripieri holds faculty appointments in the Department of Comparative Human Development, the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the Committee on Neurobiology at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Maestripieri's research focuses on the biology of social behavior from a comparative and evolutionary perspective. He is the author of over 130 scientific publications and several books including Primate Psychology (Harvard University Press, 2003) and Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
He was awarded the 1991 National Award "B. Grassi" from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy) as the best young investigator in the field of Zoology, the 2000 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Animal Learning and Behavior/Comparative Psychology, and a NIMH Career Development Award (2001-2006). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
