Accessibility statement

Professor Jon W Pitchford

Professor

Research

PURE Staff link York Research Database

The living world is an uncertain place. We have an innate tendency to hope these random fluctuations will magically average out, letting us arrive at a simple deterministic understanding. I am interested in situations where this doesn’t work. I use simple mathematical models and clever collaborators, applying methods from dynamical systems and stochastic processes together with computer simulations.

Current interests include: individual-based models (IBMS) of growth, competition and foraging in marine and terrestrial systems; marine reserves and evolutionary fisheries management; evolution under uncertainty; plankton dynamics; terrestrial carbon dynamics in complex food webs; epidemiology; group movement; wind farms and dead birds; kitchen sinks.

Discoveries

Getting lucky can be better than being good.

Dr Jon W Pitchford

Contact details

Professor Jon W Pitchford
Professor
Department of Biology
University of York
PO Box 373
York
YO10 5YW

Tel: 01904 328602