Daniel T. Blumstein is a Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Los Angeles and in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Between 2009 and 2016 he was Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. He is interested in the evolution of social and antipredator behavior and the ramifications mechanisms of behavior have for higher level ecological processes and for wildlife conservation.

Dan has studied behavior and conservation in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Germany, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States. He is a past editor of the journal Animal Behaviour, and is presently an associate editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology. He is on the editorial boards of Behavioral Ecology and Biology Letters.

He received his undergraduate degrees in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology (Magna Cum Laude), and in Environmental Conservation (Cum Laude) at the University of Colorado. He received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Animal Behavior at the University of California Davis, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Marburg, the University of Kansas, and Macquarie University.