John H. Vandermeer ., is a Margaret Davis Collegiate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work has been in tropical agroecosystem ecology, tropical forest ecology, and theoretical ecology. He is the author of over 150 scientific articles and 9 books. Professor Vandermeer was born in 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BS in zoology from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, and his masters in zoology from the University of Kansas. His doctorate was awarded in biology from the University of Michigan in 1969 based on laboratory and theoretical work with protozoa in a thesis entitled The Competitive.
