Catherine Carr is a Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her B.S. and first class honors in Zoology from the University of Cape Town in 1977, her M.A. in Biology from State University New York at Buffalo in 1978, her Ph. D. in Neuroscience from University of California at San Diego in 1984, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at California Institute of Technology in 1987. Dr. Carr received a National Research Service Award and the Society for Neurotheology Young Investigator prize in 1984. She received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1988. From 1992 to 1998, Dr. Carr was a member of the NIH Hearing Panel and became a member again in 2002. She joined the Zoology department at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1990 and became Professor of Biology in 1999. Dr. Carr's career at the Marine Biological Laboratory began as a Scholar-In-Residence for the Neural Systems and Behavior course in 1990. She was appointed to the faculty of the course in 1995 and was Co-Director from 2000-2004. From 2005-2008 she served as the Grass Foundation Lab director. She received a Humboldt Senior Research Prize (2004, 2011), and was made a fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in 2011. She is a fellow of AAAS (2012), and the International Society of Neuroethology (2018). Dr. Carr is currently president of the Grass Foundation.