| Armin Moczek | |
| Birth Date: | 8 July 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Munich, Germany |
| Field: | Evolutionary biology |
| Work Institutions: | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Known For: | Mechanisms that facilitate the evolutionary origin of novel, complex traits |
Armin Moczek (born 8 July 1969 in Munich) is a German evolutionary biologist and full professor at Indiana University Bloomington.
Moczek studied biology at the University of Würzburg, where he graduated in 1996 with a master's degree in zoology. Joining Fred Nijhout’s lab at Duke University he developed a deep interest in Evolutionary developmental biology, receiving his PhD in 2002. From 2002 to 2004 he joined the University of Arizona as a postdoctoral fellow in the Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching (PERT) program.[1] In 2004, he assumed the position of assistant professor at the Department of Biology at Indiana University, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2009 and full professor in 2014.[2] His research focuses on the genetic, developmental, and ecological mechanisms, and the interactions among them, that facilitate innovation in living systems.[3]