Topic: Discrete population models from first principles

Speaker: Stefan Geritz (Associate Professor, University of Helsinki)

Date and Venue: May 31, 2017, 16:30-17:30, Mathematics Building 4-225

Stefan Geritz, Associate Professor of Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Helsinki, main researcher in the Biomathematics Research Group. He received his MSc degree in 1987 in Mathematics and Biology from University of Leiden (the Netherlands) and Ph.D. degree in 1998 from University of Leiden (the Netherlands) in Biomathematics.

Stefan's teaching interests and research interests cover the same ground, which is the formulation and analysis of mathematical models connecting (i) individual behaviour, (ii) population behaviour and (iii) longterm evolutionary behaviour. These three not only represent different levels of organisation but also different spatial and temporal scales. To understand and explain phenomena on a higher level in terms of processes on a lower level is the main objective of his teaching and research.

His short-term appointments consist of visiting professor in Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnic di Milano (Italy) from April-June of 2009, visiting professor in Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna (Austria) from June-July of 2007, and research scholar of International Institute of Applied System Analysis (Austria) from June-July of 1998.

Prof. Geritz's research is in Applied Mathematics (Biomathematics), particularly in ecological modeling, population dynamics and adaptive dynamics. The topics of his papers range from general (i.e., model-independent) theories in adaptive dynamics to results for specific ecological or evolutionary models.

Prof. Geritz had 40 articles published in international journals with peer review. In total these have been cited 2848 times according to the ISI Web of Knowledge. The average number of citations per paper is 71. His h-index is 19, May 2017.

As co-founder of the mathematical theory of adaptive dynamics, two of his papers (Metz et al. 1992; Geritz et al. 1998) are commonly referred to as the seminal papers of the field and have been cited over 634 and 855 times, respectively,  according to the ISI Web of Knowledge, May 2017.

All interested are welcome!