Martin Nowak

Martin Andreas Nowak (born 1965 in Klosterneuburg ) is an Austrian- American mathematician and biologist. He is a professor at Harvard University.

Life

Nowak studied biochemistry from 1983 to 1987 and received his PhD in 1989 "sub auspiciis " in mathematics at the University of Vienna. His dissertation was titled Stochastic strategies in the prisoner's dilemma (Evolution of Cooperation ). The Habilitation in 1993 at the University of Vienna. Nowak worked in this period, among others, Peter Schuster and Karl Sigmund in Vienna, as well as with Robert May in Oxford and Manfred Eigen in Göttingen. He then researched to 1998 at the University of Oxford. From 1998 to 2003, Nowak was at Princeton University. Since 2003 he is a professor at Harvard.

Work

Nowak's research interests are evolutionary dynamics, evolution and treatment of cancer, infection dynamics, quasispecies theory, Genredundanz, Evolutionary game theory, dynamics of adaptation, finite populations, evolutionary graph theory, evolutionary set theory, evolution of language, cooperation, fairness and reputation, Indirect reciprocity, group selection, origin of evolution, and the evolution of eusociality.

  • MA Nowak and RM May: Virus Dynamics: Mathematical Principles of Immunology and Virology. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0,198,504,187th
  • MA Nowak Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life. Harvard University Press, 2006, ISBN 0674023382nd
  • MA Nowak and R. Highfield: SuperCooperators: Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. Free Press, 2011, ISBN 1439100187th
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