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 |
christoph.hauert@math.ubc.ca | |
Education |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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.