Curriculum Vita


Name Christoph Hauert
Address Mathematics Department
University of British Columbia
1984 Mathematics Road
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2
Canada
Phone (604) 827 5822
Fax (604) 822 6074
E-mail christoph.hauert@math.ubc.ca

Education


since July 2016 Professor, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
July 2011 -
June 2016
Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
since July 2009 Associate Faculty, Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
July 2008 -
June 2011
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
October 2004 -
June 2008
Research Associate with Martin Nowak, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University.
May 2002 -
September 2004
Post-doctoral fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) on Mechanisms of Cooperation: games in different geometries in collaboration with Michael Doebeli .
March 2000 -
April 2002
Post-doctoral fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) on Cooperation in biological, social and economic context in collaboration with Karl Sigmund.
November 1998 -
October 1999
Postdoctoral position of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) on Control of Avalanche Distributions in Systems Exhibiting Self-organized Criticality.
November 18, 1998 Doctoral degree in theoretical physics with Magna cum Laude.
Title of thesis: Evolution of Cooperation, The Prisoner's Dilemma and its Applications as an Example.
Supervisor: Heinz-Georg Schuster.
July 1998 Participation in the ReefCheck 1998 on Angaga Island, Ari Atoll, Maldives.
June 1997 Summer School on Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute, USA.
1996 -1998 Worked on my PhD thesis in Game Theory including the following major topics: Master-Equations, Markov-Chains, Monte-Carlo-Methods, optimization problems in a rugged fitness landscape, cellular automata, spatially extended systems.
April 1996 Registered at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany.
April 1995 -
March 1996
Administrator of the computer system at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Bern. Research work on a generalization of the Prisoner's Dilemma to an arbitrary number of players with different memory sizes.
Winter 1994/95 Travelling through Australia gaining insights and experiences in zoological field research projects as a volunteer.
October 27, 1994 Masters degree in theoretical physics.
Title of thesis: Numerical Simulations of Collisions and Decays in an Expanding Hadron Gas.
Supervisor: Hans Bebie.
1989 - 1994 Student in theoretical physics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Minor subjects: chemistry (1991) and mathematics (1992).
1989 Military service.
1984 - 1988 High School in Bern-Kirchenfeld. Graduation type C (natural sciences).
1983 - 1984 Preparatory year for high school at the Feusi Schule in Bern.
1974 - 1983 Rudolf Steiner School in Bern and Ittigen.

Skills


Operating Systems Sound knowledge of UNIX (NeXTstep/OPENSTEP, Mac OS X, BSD 4.3, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.4+) and DOS, Windows 3.11, 95, NT, XP as well as administration of heterogenous computer networks.
Programming C, Objective-C, Java, GWT, Mathematica, MS-Access, MS-Excel.
Languages German: mother tongue
English: oral and written very good
French: oral and written very good
Techniques Modelling, Numerics, Monte-Carlo-Simulations.

Personal


Interests Computer simulations and models of complex systems with applications in physics, biology and medicine. Evolutionary Game Theory and Dynamics of nonlinear and complex systems.
Flora and fauna - in particular their adaption to the ever changing environment.
Activities Literature, philosophy, discussions, travelling, people and cultures, sports (badminton, hiking, scuba diving, motorbike riding).

September 16, 2016 Christoph Hauert.