Professor Michael Bonsall

I am a Senior Research Fellow at St Peter's College and Professor of Mathematical Biology in the University of Oxford Department of Biology. Before joining Oxford, I completed my undergraduate degree, PhD and held a Royal Society research fellowship within the Department of Biological Sciences at Imperial College London.

Research

My research focuses on applications of mathematics to problems in the life sciences (and beyond). In detail, I am interested in population biology (population dynamics, community ecology, evolutionary ecology). Research in the group focuses on a wide range of questions such as the population and evolutionary dynamics of life history strategies (e.g. the evolution of longevity), the role of spatial structure on shared enemy and competing enemy interactions, the effects of enrichment on the diversity of ecological communities, the interplay between noise and dynamics in multispecies interactions and the evolution of resistance to microbes.

Many of these projects involve the development of theoretical models in conjunction with experiments or observations in the field or laboratory. To this end, we aim to test different ecological and evolutionary ecology theories by fitting relevant mathematical models to appropriate ecological experimental (or observational) data. Further details of my research interests can be found here.