James C. Nieh

James Charles Nieh was born in Taiwan, but grew up in Southern California. He received his B.A. degree at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA, in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 1997. He subsequently received a NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at the University of Würzburg in Germany. After this, he received the prestigious Harvard Junior Fellowship. In 2000, he joined the faculty in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego where he is currently a Professor in the Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution. Nieh?s interests focus on bee communication and cognition. He studies many types of social bees, including honey bees, bumble bees, and stingless bees. Currently, his lab is interested in exploring the evolution of bee language, how bees communicate and recruit nestmates to food, and in how pesticides and disease affect bee behavior, navigation, and communication.

Biography Updated on 25 July 2012

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