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Hanna Kokko

Finnish scientist

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University of Mainz (2023-present)
University of Zurich (2014-2022)
Australian National University (2010-2014)
University of Helsinki (2003-2010)
University of Jyväskylä (2002-2003)
University of Glasgow (2000-2002)
University of Cambridge (1998-2000) University of Helsinki (Ph.D. 1997) Helsinki University of Technology (BSc., MSc.)
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2025)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2014)
Australian Laureate Fellowship (2010)

Hanna Kokko (born 1971) is a scientist and full professor at the University of Mainz . 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, the Australian National University, University of Zürich and she is currently a professor in evolutionary ecology at the University of Mainz supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From 2008 to 2009 she served as co-chair of :fi:Vanamo-seura.

Awards and honors

Kokko's book Kutistuva turska (Shrinking Cod) was awarded the Finnish State Award for Public Information (:fi:Tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinto) in 2009. 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. In 2025 she was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in recognition of her scientific achievements.

Selected publications

Bargum, K. & Kokko, H. (2008). :fi:Kutistuva turska ja muita evoluution ihmeitä, WSOY (fi).
Kokko, H. (2007). Modelling for Field Biologists (and Other Interesting People), Cambridge University Press. .

References

[https://www.cha-mainz.de/research/basic-research/hanna-kokko Center for Healthy Aging in Mainz: List of positions held at Kokko's page.(Retrieved 26 July 2025)]
(5 April 2019). "Interview with Hanna Kokko".
Forde, Anne. (23 December 2005). "Evolutionary Ecology, Locally and Globally". [[Science Magazine]].
(4 March 2016). "Defender of the diversity of life". [[Finnish Cultural Foundation]] }}{{Dead link.
"Hanna Kokko - Humboldt-Professur 2023".
"Hallituksen jäsenet kautta aikojen". [[:fi:Vanamo-seura]].
"Oikos – The Per Brinck Oikos Award 2010".
"Founders' Prize".
(April 2011). "Annual Report 2010". [[Australian National University]].
"Professor Hanna Kokko".
(26 March 2014). "New Academy of Science Fellows".
(2 March 2016). "Finnish Cultural Foundation awarded record 25 million in grants".
"New Members".
"Hanna Kokko has been elected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina". Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

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