Plenary lecture

Day 2 (Wednesday 23 April) @ 10:00 – 10:50

Corina Tarnita (Princeton University)

Biography

Corina Tarnita joined the Princeton Ecology and Evolutionary Biology faculty in February 2013 after completing her term with the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow in Mathematical Biology (2010–2012). She earned her BA (’06), MA (’08) and PhD (’09) in Mathematics from Harvard University and has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences. Corina’s research focuses on the comparative understanding of complex adaptive systems, from single cells to entire ecosystems and from human social behavior to cultural evolution. She explores how these systems originate, assemble, interact with their environment, and evolve over time. Central to her research is the development of general theoretical frameworks. She combines these frameworks with empirical data to identify and catalog natural patterns and to develop models whose predictions can be tested experimentally.