Corrie Moreau  Corrie S. Moreau is an evolutionary biologist and entomologist with a specialty in myrmecology, the study of ants. She is currently a professor and curator at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Moreau studies the evolution, ecology, biogeography, systematics, and diversification of insects and their microbial gut-symbionts using molecular and genomic tools. She has also been an advocate for increasing women and diversity in the sciences. Moreau received a PhD in biology from Harvard University (2003 – 2007) under the guidance of E. O. Wilson and Naomi Pierce. She received a MSc from San Francisco State University and the California Academy of Sciences (2000 – 2003) and a Bachelors (1996 – 2000) from San Francisco State University. After completing her Ph.D. in 2007 Corrie Moreau was selected as a Miller Research Fellows of the Miller Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2008 she became an assistant curator at the Field Museum of Natural History where she stayed for 10 years being promoted to associate curator in 2014. In 2019 Moreau moved to Cornell University as full professor and director and curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC). Moreau and colleagues were the first to establish the origin of the ants at 140 million years ago using molecular sequence data (40 million years older than previous estimates), and that the diversification of the ants coincided with the rise of the flowering plants (angiosperms). In addition, Moreau and Charles D. Bell showed that the tropics have been and continue to be important for the evolution of the ants. Moreau and colleagues have demonstrated the importance of gut-associated bacteria in the evolutionary and ecological success of ants through targeted bacterial and microbiome sequencing, including showing that bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants. In 2018 elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Featured by National Geographic as a Women of Impact in 2018. In 2016 Moreau was selected as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2015 Moreau was included in "15 Brilliant Women Bridging the Gender Gap in Science" and in 2014 listed as "10 Women Scientists You Should Follow on Twitter". In 2014 Moreau was selected as a National Geographic Explorer – National Geographic Society. Moreau was elected a Miller Fellow of the Miller Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (2007 – 2008). She received two "Excellence and Distinction in Teaching Awards" from Harvard University's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (2004 & 2006).