Armand Marie Leroi

Armand Leroi
Armand Leroi
Born	16 July 1964; Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealand; Dutch;
Alma mater	Dalhousie University (undergraduate); University of California, Irvine postgraduate);
	Scientific career
Fields	Evolutionary biology
Institutions	Imperial College London; Albert Einstein College of Medicine; University of California, Irvine; Dalhousie University;
Thesis	The origin and evolution of life history trade-offs (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Michael R. Rose
Website	www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.leroi

Armand Marie Leroi (born 16 July 1964) is a New Zealand-born Dutch author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College in London. He received the Guardian First Book Award in 2004 for his book Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. He has presented scientific documentaries on Channel 4 such as Alien Worlds (2005) and What Makes Us Human (2006), and BBC Four such as What Darwin Didn't Know (2009), Aristotle's Lagoon (2010), and Secret Science of Pop (2012).

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