Prof. Randolph Nesse University of Michigan, USA

Randolph M. Nesse, MD is a Research Professor at Arizona State University, where he began in 2014 as Professor of Life Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for Evolution Medicine. He was previously a Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. His research on... read moreevolution and aging led to a collaboration with the evolutionary biologist George Williams that initiated much new work in evolutionary medicine. His current mission is to show how the principles of evolutionary medicine can provide a stronger scientific foundation for psychiatry. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and Founding President of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health. His new book, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry is recognized as seminal for evolutionary psychiatry.