# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-dunn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:44:30.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-dunn"
name: "Robert Dunn"
slug: "robert-dunn"
description: "Robert Dunn is a biologist, writer and professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. He has written several books and his science essays have appeared at magazines such as BBC Wildlife Magazine, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic and others. He has become known for efforts to involve the public as citizen scientists in arthropod surveys and bacterial flora studies. His projects include studies of belly button biodiversity, mites that live on human faces, ants in backyards, and fungi and bacteria in houses."
tagline: "U.S. ecologist and biologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.77
  momentum:             0.04291845493562232
  historical:           4.808424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Dunn"
    title: "Rob Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dunn_(biologist)"
    title: "Robert Dunn (biologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82_(%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3)"
    title: "Данн, Роберт (биолог)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Dunn"
    title: "Robert R. Dunn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BD%97%E5%B8%83%C2%B7%E9%82%93%E6%81%A9"
    title: "罗布·邓恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7343698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump