Dr Susanne Schindler

Research Interests:

Mathematical models in ecology and evolution
Mathematical demography
Life history evolution
Determinants of population growth rate
Sexual selection
Theories of speciation

 

Additional interests

Behavioral biology
Evolutionary algorithms
Adaptive dynamics

 

Link to blog about my research

 

 

Publications:

2013: S. Schindler, P. Neuhaus, J.-M. Gaillard, T. Coulson, The Influence of Non-Random Mating on Population Growth, American Naturalist, accepted

2013: S. Schindler, O. Breidbach, J. Jost, Preferring the fittest mates: An analytically tractable model, Theoretical Biology 317 (2013), pp. 30--38, doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.09.018
Popular science version of article

2012: S. Schindler, S. Tuljapurkar, J.-M. Gaillard, T. Coulson, Linking the population growth rate and the age-at-death distribution, Theoretical Population Biology 82 (4), pp. 244--252, doi: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.09.003

2011: PhD, Fitness-based mating: A systematic analysis of a new preference model, University of Leipzig, Germany

2004: Diploma thesis, Schemata and recombinations in genetic algorithms in particular with the existence of symmetries, University of Leipzig, Germany

2002: Diploma thesis, Schemata in genetic algorithms, University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig (HTWK Leipzig), Germany

 

Professional history:

2013-present Research Associate at University of Oxford, UK - funded by ERC

2010-2012 Research Associate at Imperial College London, UK - funded by ERC

2005-2010 PhD student in mathematical biology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

2002-2004 Study of Mathematics at University of Leipzig

1997-2002 Study of Economathematics at University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig (HTWK Leipzig), Germany and Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Great Britain

 

Contact details:

University of Oxford
Department of Zoology
The Tinbergen Building
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PS
United Kingdom

Office: E38
Phone: 0044 (0)1865 2-71140

E-mail: susanne.schindler [at] zoo.ox.ac.uk

22 November 2011