Robert Huber is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he has been teaching since 1998.

Prior to his current position, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and assistant professor at the University of Graz. Huber gained research experience in the fields of ethology, neuroethology, physiology, biochemistry, and comparative neuroanatomy. He was awarded a Research Grant by the National Institutes of Health for the study of "Ethopharmacological Characterization of Reward Systems in Crayfish."

Huber holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Texas Tech University and a master's degree in zoology from the University of Salzburg. While working on his master's thesis, he was advised by Prof. Konrad Z. Lorenz. Additionally, he received his habilitation from the University of Graz, Austria

• Sources & sinks: Scientific Trajectories and the Austrian Brain Drain (June 29, 2006)