“Spatial spread of infection among populations: Some epidemiological and evolutionary consequences”

This event is part of the department’s seminar series for graduate students.

Dr. Ottar Bjornstad is a Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology and the J. Lloyd and Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair of Epidemiology at Pennsylvania State University. He earned his PhD in Ecology from the University of Oslo in 1997 and completed two postdoctoral fellowships; one at the Norwegian Science Foundation and the other at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara. Read more about Dr. Bjornstad’s work on his website.