Rate My Professor Lorenzo Santorelli

Santorelli graduated with honours in Biological Sciences from the University of Florence and completed his MSc and PhD at Rice University in Texas, USA. He previously held positions at the University of Leeds and the University of Oxford, including roles as Junior Research Fellow for St Cross College and Associate Director of the Doctoral Training Centre. His research examines the evolution of cooperative behaviour in macro- and microorganisms through an interdisciplinary approach involving entomology, molecular biology, genetics, animal behaviour and microbiology. Key publications include works on cheater-resistance in social amoebae (Nature, 2008), facultative cheater mutants in Dictyostelium discoideum (Nature, 2008), co-evolutionary dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2015) and loss of social behaviours in cystic fibrosis infections (PLoS One, 2014). He has received the Lynne Millward Award for academic staff member of the year at the University of Surrey.