Draft:Damian Octavio Elias

Damian Octavio Elias is a behavioral ecologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on basic principals in animal behavior and behavioral adaptation. He is Mexican American and grew up in in Nogales, Arizona.

Education
Damian is the first person to go to college in his family and received his undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. Hie received his PhD from Cornell University in the department of Neurobiology and Behavior.