Levin Lab Directory & Research



Faculty & Staff
Simon A. Levin	slevinprinceton.edu	Dynamics of populations and communities; spatial heterogeneity and problems of scale; evolutionary ecology; theoretical and mathematical ecology; biodiversity and ecosystem processes.

Sandi Milburn	milburnprinceton.edu	Assistant to Simon A. Levin.

IT Support
Sal Fattoross	saleno.princeton.edu	Computer systems administrator.

Axel Haenssen	axelprinceton.edu	Computer systems administrator.

Postdoctoral Research Associates
Miguel A. Fortuna	mfortuna@princeton.edu	Ecological theory of coevolution for understanding how natural selection shapes the architecture of ecological networks such as food webs and plant-animal mutualistic networks.

Michael Raghib-Moreno	mraghibprinceton.edu	Mathematical and computational methods capable of yielding population-level information from individual-level models, typically nonlinear measure-valued Markov processes. Maximum entropy moment closures with applications to point process models of plant populations with nontrivial spatial and size structure. Current work involves equation-free, multiscale approaches for spatially and physiologically structured aquatic communities.

Graduate Students
Ryan Chisholm	chisholmprinceton.edu	Theoretical approaches to invasive species problems: the economic costs of invasive species based on their impact on ecosystem services (e.g., water purification, erosion control, provision of aesthetic value); decision frameworks for prioritizing conservation resources, particularly among invasive species control projects and between such projects and other conservation measures.

Ashley N. Crump	acrump@princeton.edu	Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases in humans; externalities of coinfection at the scale of populations; affects of social norms and individual human behavior on disease population dynamics.

Adrian de Froment	adriandeprinceton.edu	The evolution and spread of social norms, and individual-based models of social behaviour.

Caroline E. Farrior	cfarriorprinceton.edu	Understanding and identifying important aspects of plant community stability, structure, and functioning.

David Goehring	dgoehringprinceton.edu	Theoretical conservation ecology and community ecology, exploring the evolution of cultural norms and the role of animal movement in reserve design and restoration ecology.

Eili Klein	ekleinprinceton.edu	The evolution of microbial pathogens, particularly the evolution of resistance to antimicrobials, especially malaria and bacteria, and the epistatic and pleiotropic effects this has on other phenotypic aspects of the pathogen, especially virulency.

Carey Nadell	cnadellprinceton.edu	Cooperation and conflict in spatially structured populations; pursuing simple model systems to provide empirical feedback for the theory of social evolution.

Liliana M. Salvador	salvadorprinceton.edu	Computational and mathematical models for the study of animal behaviour; collective decision making; population dynamics; complex systems.

Allison K. Shaw	akshawprinceton.edu	The generation of population-level spatial patterns from individual-level interactions, especially patterns of behavioral strategies; consequences of spatially-structured populations, in terms of movement and interaction with a patchy environment.

Ann Carla Staver	astaverprinceton.edu	Landscape ecology of savannas; temporal and spatial variability as drivers of non-equilibrium ecosystem dynamics.

Visitors to the Levin Lab
Sara Avila	savila@princeton.edu	Visiting Student Research Collaborator (Mexico).

Simon P. Leblanc	sleblanc@princetone.edu	Visiting Student (France).


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