Daniel Kronauer is a Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior at The Rockefeller University and an Investigator and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His research focuses on how natural selection shapes the evolution of insect societies and on how social life is regulated at different hierarchical levels – from genes and neural circuits to individuals and colonies. He is particularly interested in how genetically identical clonal raiser ants develop into distinct castes, how workers specialise in different tasks, and how chemical communication is perceived and processed by the nervous system. By combining molecular, neurobiological, and behavioral approaches, he investigates how individual interactions give rise to collective behaviours such as decision-making, foraging, parental care, and navigation.