Mark Lewis

Mark Lewis is the Kennedy Chair in Mathematical Biology, in the department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria. He received his BSc from the University of Victoria in 1987 and D. Phil from Oxford in 1990. After a postdoc at the University of Washington he joined faculty at the University of Utah in 1992 before moving to the University of Alberta in 2001. He has held visiting positions at Imperial College, Princeton, Minnesota, and Oxford. His research involves mathematical modeling of biological processes, involving interplay of science and mathematics, where ideas from each lead to advances in the other. Professor Lewis's work develops techniques in stochastic processes, dynamical systems and partial differential equations and has led to significant advances, for example, in modeling territorial pattern formation in wolf populations, predicting population spread in biological invasions like the West Nile virus, and assessing the effect of habitat fragmentation on species survival. Research prizes include the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society Research Prize and the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize for Exceptional Research in Mathematics.