Francisco J. Ayala, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Francisco J. Ayala

Spanish-American philosopher and biologist

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1934

Place of Birth: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Profession: biologist, university teacher, geneticist, philosopher

Nationality: Spain, United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Francisco José Ayala Pereda (born March 12, 1934) is a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine and University of California, Davis.
He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year.
After graduating from the University of Salamanca, he moved to the United States in 1961 to study for a PhD at Columbia University.
There, he studied for his doctorate under Theodosius Dobzhansky, graduating in 1964.
He became a US citizen in 1971. He has been President and Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
At University of California, Irvine, his academic appointments included University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (School of Biological Sciences), Professor of Philosophy (School of Humanities), and Professor of Logic and the Philosophy of Science (School of Social Sciences).On July 1, 2018, Dr.
Ayala officially resigned from the University of California, Irvine, due to substantiated sexual harassment claims.
His name was removed from the School of Biological Sciences, the Science Library, as well as various graduate fellowships, scholarship programs, and endowed chairs.
Details of the charges were made public online on July 20, 2018 in an elaborate 97-page investigative report detailing the sexual harassment that occurred as early as 2003 and as recently as 2018.