Rate Professor Robert Sapolsky

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University, 1984; B.A. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, 1978.

Research Interests: Neurobiology of stress, behavior, and the interplay of genetics and environment, with fieldwork on baboons in Kenya.

Appointments: John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University; Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.

Awards: MacArthur Fellowship (1987); Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.

Publications: Author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Penguin Press, 2017); Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers (Holt Paperbacks, 2004).

Additional Contributions: Frequent contributor to popular science media, including TED Talks and Scientific American.