Lin Chao is a Chinese Brazilian–American evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
He spent most of his career in the Department of Biology of the University of Maryland, College Park and is currently at the Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Section of the University of California, San Diego.
[3] More recently, he was instrumental in the demonstration of the evolution of parasitic genetic elements in co-infecting bacteriophages[4][5] and experimental tests of Fisher's geometric model.
[7] The approach generally used in his laboratory is called microbial experimental evolution.
Chao is married to Camilla Rang, a fellow scientist, T-shirt designer and Swedish children's book author.