Interview at CIRM : Sebastian J. Schreiber
Also appears in collection : Thematic Month Week 1: PDE and Probability for Biology / Mois thématique Semaine 1 : EDP et probabilité pour la biologie
Sebastian J. Schreiber is a theoretical environmentalist and mathematician. His research focuses on understanding the feedbacks between community structure, population dynamics and evolutionary processes. To achieve this understanding, he builds mathematical models and discovers their emergent properties using analytical methods and numerical simulations.
His current projects include understanding (a) how spatio-temporal variation and individual heterogeneity influence population viability, community dynamics, and evolutionary responses, (b) the evolutionary dynamics of invasion and escape, and (c) how feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes influence the stability, persistence, and resilience of ecological communities. These projects involve a mixture of (i) rigorous mathematical analyses using techniques derived from dynamical systems, ergodic theory and stochastic processes, (ii) numerical computations that (where possible) draw on mathematical theory, and (iii) model selection where data are available.
He serves on the editorial boards of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B, Ecology/Ecological Monographs, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Theoretical Ecology, and Theoretical Population Biology.
He participated in the Thematic Month "Mathematical issues for Biology" held at CIRM in February 2020.
Interview/post-production : February 2020 by Stéphanie Vareilles - Camera operator : Guillaume Hennenfent Le Chromophore
