Dr Brennen Fagan

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Biography

I received my undergraduate degree at California State University, Fresno, with the Smittcamp Family Honors College before coming to the University of York’s Department of Mathematics for a PhD in Mathematical Modelling on a departmental teaching studentship.

My PhD work was with the York Historical Warfare Analysis Group, where we examined and modelled historical war data to better understand human conflict. This also resulted in a book on Quantifying Counterfactual Military History.

I currently am working as a postdoctoral researcher with the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, where I work on mathematically modelling changes and trends in biodiversity.

My current primary project is on how the movement of species and communities affects their biodiversity.