Simon A. Levin

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 1964 at the University of Maryland in College Park at Monroe Martin in mathematics doctorate ( Uniqueness and Non- Linearity ). In 1965 he became assistant professor, associate professor in 1971 and 1977, Professor of Biology (Charles A. Alexander Professor ) at Cornell University. 1980-1987 he was the Director of The Ecosystem Research Center and from 1987 to 1990 by the Center for Environmental Research. Since 1992, he is George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University. 1993 to 1998 he was director of the Princeton Environmental Institute and since 2001 he is the Director of The Center for Biocomplexity.

Levin promotes the study of the biosphere as a complex adaptive system, ie the emergence of macroscopic patterns and processes in the biosphere and ecosystems due to microscopic ecological and evolutionary processes on organisms level. It also examines parallels to social phenomena and financial markets and applications to the epidemiology. He combines empirical studies and mathematical modeling.

He is the Council of the Santa Fe Institute and was Vice - Head 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, 2001 Okubo Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004 AH Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 2005 Kyoto Prize and 2014, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

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.

Writings

  • 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, p 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
  • 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
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