Jacob Chisausky started the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. program in the summer of 2024.  He is advised by Professors Simon A. Levin and Corina Tarnita.

He is interested broadly in social behavior, life history, and adaptation from an evolutionary perspective, utilizing both mathematical modelling and computational approaches.  Before joining Princeton EEB, he earned an M.S. in the MEME (Erasmus Mundus Master’s Program in Evolutionary Biology) program, during which he developed models to address the diversification of mating type loci in mushrooms, the evolution of individual and social learning, and costly signaling theory.  Before this, he completed a B.S. in Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where he investigated plant-pollinator interaction networks in the region.