Mathematical Ecology research in Leicester covers a broad variety of topics ranging from theoretical issues of ecosystem's complexity, chaos, noise, pattern formation and animal movement & dispersal to practical agricultural applications. 

Academic and research staff

Sergei Petrovskii - mathematical population dynamics and spatial ecology, with a focus on biological invasions, ecological pattern formation and agricultural applicaitons, individual animal movement and random walk, computational ecology

Daniel Bearup - data analysis, random walk, (bio)diffusion, agricultural applications

Reiichiro Kawai - individual animal movement, random walks, stochastic models

Andrew Morozov - population dynamics, adaptive dynamics

PhD students

Matthew Adamson - spatiotemporal patterns, adaptive dynamics

Danish Ahmed - (bio)diffusion, random walk

Masha Jankovich - biological invasions, pattern formation

Long-term visitors & external members

Natalia Petrovskaya (University of Birmingham, UK) - analysis of sparse ecological data with application to pest monitoring, computational ecology

Diomar Mistro (Santa Maria, Brazil) - population dynamics in discrete time (kernel-based models), population dynamics on a lattice

Luiz Rodrigues (Santa Maria, Brazil) - population dynamics in discrete time (kernel-based models), population dynamics on a lattice