Adria LeBoeuf

Dr. Adria LeBoeuf is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, leading the Laboratory of Social Fluids within the Department of Zoology. Her research explores the evolution of social life through socially exchanged fluids, focusing on social insects like ants.

• Undergraduate: College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
• PhD: Neuroscience and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University
• Postdoctoral work: University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Her interdisciplinary work bridges neurobiology, behavior, and metabolomics, revealing how social fluids regulate development and physiology in insect colonies. Recent studies highlight metabolic division of labor and social circulatory systems.

Key awards include the PRIMA Grant (2019), HFSP Grant (2022), and the Best Paper Award (2021). The lab has attracted media attention and supports open science initiatives like the Social Transfer Network (STN).

Adria mentors PhD and MPhil students, including Arthur Matte and Zitong Zhao, and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration through her science-entertainment collective The Catalyst, which uses improvisation for research communication.