Dr. Scott R. Robinson received graduate training in field ethology and evolutionary biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S., Zoology), and in behavioral neuroscience at Oregon State University (Ph.D., Zoology). He has held faculty positions at the State University of New York (Research Scientist), the University of Iowa (Professor), and Idaho State University (Senior Research Professor). At Iowa, he established the Laboratory of Comparative Ethogenesis in the Department of Psychology (1994-2009), where he also co-founded the DELTA Center (Development & Learning from Theory to Application). In 2011, he left his position as Senior Research Professor at ISU to become Director of Pacific Ethological Laboratories in Olympia, Washington.
Since 1982, Dr. Robinson’s research has focused on the prenatal origins of behavior in the fetus. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications in the fields of animal behavior, developmental psychobiology, and behavioral neuroscience, and has co-edited two books on behavioral development.
More about Dr. Robinson, his research and his creative projects can be found at www.pelabs.org.
