EDUCATION:

• Minneapolis Public Schools
  
• B.S., University of Minnesota, 1961,
  
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1965

PRESENT POSITIONS:

• Professor of Biology, Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Endowed Term Chair, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
  
• Technical Advisor, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Apdo. 169-5000, Liberia, Coast Rica (unsalaried)
  
• Technical Advisor, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Apdo. 22-3100 Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica (unsalaried)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1972-76. Associate Professor, University of Chicago, 1969-72. Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Kansas, 1965-68. Vice-dean and coordinator of the University of Kansas - Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, grad student and faculty exchange program, September 1965 - June 1966. Continuous teaching responsibilities for the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) from 1965 to present. Faculty, Smithsonian's Summer Institute in Systematics, 1970, 1971. Faculty, population biology course: Univ. of Puerto Rico (1969) and Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela, 1973). President, Kansas Entomological Society, 1967 68. Counselor, Society for the Study of Evolution, 1969, 1970. Executive committee, Organization for Tropical Studies, 1970-72. Editorial committee, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1967 - 1969; Evolution (1972-75); Biochemical Systematics and Evolution (1973 - 1975); Soc. Restoration Biology (1989-92). Editor, North America; Journal of Tropical Ecology, 1984-87. IUCN Commission of Ecology, 1987-91. Honorary Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1986 - present. Honorary Professor, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 1986 - present. INBio and ACG Professor for Parataxonomists course, Costa Rica: 1989-96.

HONORS:
1975 Gleason Award, American Botanical Society
1975 Amoco Foundation Good Teaching Award, University of Michigan
1984 Crafoord Prize: Coevolutionary ecology. Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
1985 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania
1986 Explorer's Club Award
1987 The Berkeley Citation for Distinguished Achievement and Notable Service to the University of California, Berkeley
1987 Hijo Ilustre de Guanacaste (awarded by the Governor of Guanacaste)
1987 "Global 500" Roll of Honour, UNEP
1989 MacArthur Fellowship
1989 Joseph Leidy Medal, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
1990 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1991 Founder's Council Award of Merit, Field Museum of Natural History
1992 Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
1993 Decreed Honorary Member of the National Park Service of Costa Rica
1993 Award for Improvement of Costa Rican Quality of Life, Universidad de Costa Rica (co award with W. Hallwachs).
1994 Silver Medal Award, International Society of Chemical Ecology.
1995 Conservation Society Award.
1996 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Minnesota.
1996 Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Endowed Term Chair, University of Pennsylvania

PUBLICATIONS

• 337 papers and book chapters, mostly on tropical ecology, biodiversity and conservation
  
• Representative citations:

• Janzen, D. H. 1966. Coevolution of mutualism between ants and acacias in Central America. Evolution 20:249-75.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1970. Herbivores and the number of tree species in tropical forests. Amer. Natur. 104:502-28.
  
• Janzen, D. H. and P. S. Martin 1982. Neotropical anachronisms: the fruits the gomphotheres ate. Science 215:19-27.
  
• Janzen, D. H. ed. 1983. Costa Rican Natural History, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 816 pp.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1986. The future of tropical ecology. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 17: 305-24.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1988. Guanacaste National Park: tropical ecological and biocultural restoration. In Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems, vol. 11, pp. 143-192, J. Cairns, Jr., ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1991. How to save tropical biodiversity. American Entomologist 37:159-171.
  
• Janzen, D. H. and W. Hallwachs 1992. La restauración de la biodiversidad tropical: experiencias del Area de Conservación Guanacaste y posibles aplicaciones en México. In México ante los retos de la biodiversidad. J. Sarukhan and R. Dirzo, compilers. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico. pp. 243-250.
  
• Reid, W. V., S. A. Laird, R. Gámez, A. Sittenfeld, D. H. Janzen, M. A. Gollin and G. Juma 1993. Biodiversity Prospecting. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. 341 pp.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1993. Caterpillar seasonality in a Costa Rican dry forest. In Caterpillars. Ecological and evolutionary constraints on foraging. Eds. N. E. Stamp and T. M. Casey, Chapman and Hall, New York, pp. 448-477.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1993. Taxonomy: universal and essential infrastructure for development and management of tropical wildland biodiversity. In Proceedings of the Norway/UNEP Expert Conference of Biodiversity, Trondheim, Norway. NINA, Trondheim, Norway. Eds. O. T. Sandlund and P. J. Schei, pp. 100-113.
  
• Janzen, D. H. and W. Hallwachs 1994. All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) of Terrestrial Systems. A generic protocol for preparing wildland biodiversity for non-damaging use. Report of a NSF Workshop, 16-18 April 1993, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 132 pp.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1994. Wildland biodiversity management in the tropics: where are we now and where are we going? Vida Silvestre Neotropical 3:3-15.
  
• Janzen, D. H. and W. Hallwachs 1994. Ethical aspects of the impact of humans on biodiversity. In Man and his environment. Tropical forests and the conservation of species, ed. G. B. Marini-Bettolo. Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia 84:227-255.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1994. Priorities in tropical biology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:365-367.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1995. Neotropical restoration biology. Vida Silvestre Neotropical 4(1):3-9.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1996. On the importance of systematic biology in biodiversity development. ASC Newsletter 24:17, 23-28.
  
• Janzen, D. H. 1996. Prioritization of major groups of taxa for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) of the Guanacaste Conservation Area in northwestern Costa Rica, a biodiversity development project. ASC Newsletter 24 (4):45, 49-56.