Dolph Schluter

Dolph Schluter (born May 22, 1955) is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a University Killam Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia . Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently studies speciation in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

Schluter received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Guelph in 1977, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1983, in Ecology and Evolution. , and The Analysis of Biological Data, 2009 (and 2015 , 2020 ), with Michael Whitlock, and an editor with Robert E. Ricklefs of Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, 1993, University of Chicago Press.

His 2023 Crafoord Prize citation stated "This year’s Crafoord Laureate in biosciences has demonstrated that Darwin’s theories about natural selection are true in practice. Using revolutionary studies of finches and sticklebacks, Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia, Canada, has provided us with knowledge of how species arise. The American Society of Naturalists awarded him the Sewall Wright Award in 2007. In 2012, he was made International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. and in 2017, he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences. Schluter was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia in 2021. In 2024 he was elected Member of the American Philosophical Society . In 2023, Schluter was awarded the Crafoord Prize for "revolutionary studies of finches and sticklebacks [which have] provided us with knowledge of how species arise". Schluter donated funds from the award, with funds from other sources including Sarah Otto, to endow a postdoctoral fellowship in biodiversity studies at UBC.