Andreas Kautt, PhD

Andreas Kautt, PhD

Assistant Professor

Andi received his PhD at the University of Konstanz, Germany, as part of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Organismal Biology. His main focus was on the genomics of adaptation and speciation in crater lake cichlid fish from Nicaragua. For his postdoc, Andi joined the lab of Hopi Hoekstra at Harvard University, supported by fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). His postdoc research was focused on population genomics and the evolution of behaviors in North American deer mice. In 2024, he joined the Biology Department at WashU as an Assistant Professor.