Armand Marie Leroi (born 16 July 1964)[2] is a New Zealand-born Dutch author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College in London.
He has presented scientific documentaries on Channel 4 such as Extraterrestrial (2005) and What Makes Us Human (2006), and BBC Four such as What Darwin Didn't Know (2009), Aristotle's Lagoon (2010), and Secret Science of Pop (2012).
[1] This was followed by postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as an experimental organism.
[10] Leroi has presented two other TV documentary series for Channel 4: Alien Worlds (titled Extraterrestrial outside the UK) in 2005, and What Makes Us Human in 2006.
In 2005, Leroi published an article in The New York Times entitled "A Family Tree in Every Gene", which argued for the usefulness of racial types in medical genetics.
[21] Leroi received the EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 2006.