Martin A. Nowak

1965 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed:  English
educated at:  University of Vienna
official website:  www.martinnowak.com

Martin Andreas Nowak (born April 7, 1965) is an Austrian-born professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard University. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of mathematical biology. He made contributions to the theory of evolution, cooperation, virus dynamics, and cancer dynamics. Nowak held professorships at Oxford University and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, before being recruited by Harvard in 2003. He was the director of Harvard's program for evolutionary dynamics from 2003 until 2020. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.Nowak has authored more than 500 academic papers and has been cited more than 140,000 times. In addition, Nowak has authored four books, who have received critical praise. Nowak's best known work outside of academia is his 2011 book SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed. Another work, Evolution, Games, and God, explores the interplay between theology and evolutionary theology. Nowak, a Roman Catholic, frequently lectures about religion and was co-director with Sarah Coakley of the Evolution and Theology of Cooperation project at Harvard University. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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