John Hildebrand

About

John G. Hildebrand is Regents Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He currently (2014-2026) serves as the elected International Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences. His research fields are insect neurobiology and behavior, olfactory neuroscience, chemical ecology, and the biology of arthropod vectors of pathogens. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, he earned his baccalaureate degree (Biology) at Harvard University and Ph.D. (Biochemistry) at the Rockefeller University. After 16 years of faculty service at Harvard and Columbia Universities, he moved to Arizona in 1985 as founding head (1985-2013) of the Division of Neurobiology, which became the Department of Neuroscience in the College of Science in 2009. Among his interests and areas of active engagement are science policy and diplomacy, K-16 education, and diversity, equity, access, and inclusion in STEMM. A past president of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, International Society of Chemical Ecology, and International Society for Neuroethology, he is a member or fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, German National Academy of Sciences 'Leopoldina’, National Academy of Sciences (USA), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and The World Academy of Sciences; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (UK); and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Entomological Society of America, the International Society for Neuroethology, and the International Science Council.