Mark S. Blumberg

Mark Blumberg is a behavioral neuroscientist and the F. Wendell Miller Professor at the University of Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1983, majoring in Physics and Philosophy. That year, he began graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in Biopsychology in 1988. After leaving Chicago, he began four years as a postdoctoral associate at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 1992, he moved to Iowa City to take a position at the University of Iowa. Blumberg has published over 100 scientific articles and chapters on a wide variety of topics, including sleep, animal behavior, animal mind, temperature regulation, and communication. He received a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health and, In 1997, an Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). Currently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience. In addition, to Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us about Development and Evolution, Blumberg has published two other books of general science: Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior, and Body Heat: Temperature and LIfe on Earth. He also co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience. Blumberg was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland.