Christina Grozinger

Grozinger has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited over 10,00 times. She is the Principal investigator at the Grozinger Lab, which has trained 45 undergraduates, 15 Ph.D. students, 6 M.Sc. graduate students, and 13 post-doctoral scholars. As of 2022, she became co-editor of the Annual Review of Entomology.

Her main areas of expertise as a social insect biologist are the molecular, physiological, and ecological determinants that affect the health of honey bees and other pollinators. Grozinger has carried out important research into the ways in which bee stressors affect bees, and how factors such as climate change, extreme weather, pathogens, parasites, pesticides, and nutritional deficiencies are affecting worldwide pollinator decline. In 2021, she received the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food & Agriculture Sciences for her work.

Globally declining bee populations threaten agricultural production and food security. In the United States, beekeepers reported that they lost 45 percent of colonies in the year from April 2020 to April 2021. Factors involved in population decline are complex and interrelated.

In 2008 Grozinger joined the Department of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University. She worked her way up from associate professor to professor (2013), to distinguished Professor (2015). She became the Director of the Center for Pollinator Research in 2009.

In 2004, she joined the Department of Entomology and Genetics at North Carolina State University as an assistant professor.

Grozinger was born in 1975 in Montreal, Canada. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1978, where she lived until she went back to Canada in 1993 to study at McGill University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science from McGill University in 1997. She then attended Harvard University and obtained a masters and Ph.D. in chemical Biology in 1999 and 2001 respectively.