Janis Antonovics FRS (Latvian: Jānis Antonovics; born 1942 in Riga, Reichskommissariat Ostland) is an American biologist, and Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology, at University of Virginia.[1]
He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School (1953-1960), graduating from Clare College, Cambridge with a B.A. in 1963, and from University of Wales with a Ph.D. in 1966. He lectured at Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.[2]
He is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988.[4] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.[5] He won the 1999 Sewall Wright Award.
Antonovics is the author or co-author of well over 150 scientific publications and book chapters from the 1960s until the 2020s. These include: