David Epel is a researcher at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, and a Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
Epel earned his Ph.D. at University of California Berkeley under Daniel Mazia.
Subsequently, Professor Epel spent seven years at University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
He completed a postdoc with Britton Chance at the University of Pennsylvania.
His work focuses on egg activation during fertilization, as well as stress on embryonic development.