Hochberg Michael

Prof. Michael Hochberg is a Distinguished Research Director at CNRS and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His career spans senior roles at CNRS (1991–present), sabbaticals at University of Wisconsin and University of California, Berkeley, and fellowships at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

His research bridges population ecology, evolutionary biology, and cancer evolution, focusing on host-parasite coevolution, phage therapy, and the ecological underpinnings of cancer risk.

His recent publications emphasize the application of evolutionary principles to medical challenges, including phage-antibiotic synergy and evolutionary constraints on tumor development. Trends include interdisciplinary approaches connecting microbial ecology, cancer biology, and social evolution.

• CNRS Silver Medal (1997)
• Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin Zoology (1998)
• Visiting Miller Professor, UC Berkeley (2009)
• Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2013–2014)

Hochberg has trained over 50 Masters and PhD students, supervised 10 postdocs, and secured grants from ANR, INCa, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. He leads editorial roles at Faculty of 1000 and Science Advances, and previously directed the Darwinian Evolution of Cancer Consortium (2012–2015).