Marie Ann-Charlotte Dacke (born 1973) is a professor in the Lund Vision Group at Lund University in Sweden. She received an #IgNobel Prize in 2013 for her work on the navigation system of #DungBeetles.

She is also a panel member on the Swedish TV show Studio Natur, and was named best science communicator in Sweden during the 2012 #ForskarGrandPrix.

Dacke's research is focused on navigation in insects, in particular dung beetles. She is interested in their celestial compass, which is the use of the sky to guide navigation. In 2018 Dacke received funding from the European Research Council to expand on this work.
#Nature #Insects #Ecology #Beetles