Hanna Kokko
# Hanna Kokko

Hanna Kokko (born 1971) is a scientist and full professor at the University of Zurich. She works in the fields of evolution and ecology and is known for her research on the evolution and maintenance of sex, the feedback between ecology and evolution, and the evolutionary ecology of cancer.

## Career

Kokko attended the Helsinki University of Technology for her undergraduate engineering degree. While there, she became interested in biology and decided to complete a one-year biology research Master's degree. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Helsinki on the topic of sexual selection and the evolution of mate choice in 1997. During this time, she was mentored by William Sutherland.

Kokko has since held positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Glasgow, the University of Jyväskylä, the University of Helsinki, and the Australian National University, and she is currently a professor in evolutionary ecology at the University of Zürich. From 2008 to 2009 she served as co-chair of Vanamo-seura [fi].

## Awards and honors

Kokko's book Kutistuva turska (Shrinking Cod) was awarded the Finnish State Award for Public Information (Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinto [fi]) in 2009. She received the 2010 Per Brinck Oikos Award [sv] and the British Ecological Society's Founder's Prize. In 2010, she was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship. She became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2014 and won the Finnish Cultural Foundation's outstanding cultural achievement award in 2016. In 2020, she became an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

## Selected publications

* Bargum, K. & Kokko, H. (2008). Kutistuva turska ja muita evoluution ihmeitä [fi], WSOY (fi). ISBN 978-951-0-34020-2
* Kokko, H. (2007). Modelling for Field Biologists (and Other Interesting People), Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521831321.
