Michael Gastner

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Dr Michael T. Gastner
Department for Mathematics
Complexity and Networks Programme
Imperial College London

Short biography:
I received my PhD in physics from the University of Michigan in 2005. For my thesis work I received the Wirt and Mary Cornwell Prize for having "demonstrated greatest intellectual curiosity, given most promise of original study and creative work". From 2005 until 2008 I was postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, a multi-disciplinary research centre in New Mexico, USA, devoted to the study of complex systems. In 2009, I was Computational Science Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Currently, I am a Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College London.

My most recent work in cartography was covered by Yahoo! News.

Research Here are the main topics of my research:

Networks

Percolation theory

Theoretical ecology

Cartograms (density-equalizing maps)

Publications

Media coverage

Teaching

Autumn 2011: Networks - Theory and Applications

Spring 2012: Quantitative Biology

This page was last updated on 06 March 2012. Please visit me again soon.

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Email m.gastner@imperial.ac.uk