Stephen C. Pratt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. His research focuses on how the complex behavior of ant and bee colonies emerges from the actions and interactions of colony members, without direction from a well-informed central controller. He employs both theoretical and empirical approaches, and is also active in the development of bioinspired algorithms for swarm robotics applications. He received a Ph.D. in neurobiology and behavior from Cornell University in 1997, and since then has worked at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and the University of Bath, United Kingdom.