Simon Levin

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Simon Asher Levin (born April 22, 1941 in Baltimore ) is an American ecologist and mathematical biologist . He is a professor at Princeton University .

Levin studied mathematics at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and received a PhD in mathematics ( Uniqueness and Non-Linearity ) from the University of Maryland, College Park with Monroe Martin in 1964 . In 1965 he became Assistant Professor, 1971 Associate Professor and 1977 Professor of Biology ( Charles A. Alexander Professor ) at Cornell University . From 1980 to 1987 he was director of the Ecosystem Research Center and from 1987 to 1990 of the Center for Environmental Research. Since 1992 he has been the George M. Moffet Professor of Biology at Princeton University. He was director of the Princeton Environmental Institute from 1993 to 1998 and has been director of the Center for Biocomplexity there since 2001.

Levin propagates the study of the biosphere as a complex adaptive system, i.e. the formation of macroscopic patterns and processes in the biosphere and in ecosystems based on microscopic ecological and evolutionary processes at the organism level. He also explores parallels to social phenomena and financial markets and applications to epidemiology. He combines empirical studies and mathematical modeling.

He serves on the board of the Santa Fe Institute and was vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Scientists. He was president of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Mathematical Biology.

In 1988 he received the Robert H. MacArthur Award from the Ecological Society of America, in 2001 the Okubo Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2004 the AH-Heineken Award for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, in 2005 the Kyoto Award and in 2014 the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement . In early 2016 he was awarded the National Medal of Science .

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • with RT Payne Disturbance, patch formation, and community structure , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 71, 1974, 2744-2747
  • The problem of pattern and scale in ecology , Ecology, Volume 73, 1992, pp. 1943-1967
  • with BT Grenfell, A. Hastings, AS Perelson Mathematical and computational challenges in population biology and ecosystem science , Science, Volume 275, 1997, pp. 334-343
  • Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons , Perseus Books Group, Reading, Massachusetts, 1999
  • with DL Smith, R. Laxminarayan Strategic interactions in multi-institutional epidemics of antibiotic resistance , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102, 2005, 3153-3158

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Levin, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levin, Simon Asher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore