Hans Metz
Guest Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Hans Metz has been associated with IIASA’s Evolution and Ecology Program since its start in 1996, initially as scientific leader and since January 2002 as Senior Advisor. In 2010 he retired as Professor of Mathematical Biology at the Leiden Institute of Biology (IBL) where he was leader of the Theoretical Biology section until 2006. Professor Metz' research interests have ranged from the construction of state space models from data on animal behavior (1968-1981), through the dynamics of physiologically structured populations, where populations are conceived as frequency distributions over spaces of physiological states (1980-1992, with a trickle of activity going on until the present day), to adaptive dynamics (since 1990), with recently some population genetics and Evo-Devo also creeping in for perspective. His main research interest remains the mathematical development of adaptive dynamics as a class of stochastic dynamical systems abstracting the process of long-term evolutionary change in the parameters characterizing individual behavior as a result of (i) chance mutations which slightly alter the parameter vector of single individuals, and (ii) the population dynamics generated by their behavior.Last update: 28 MAR 2011
Publications
Metz, J.A.J., Dieckmann, U. , & Law, R. (2000). The geometry of ecological interactions: Epilogue. In: The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity. Eds. Dieckmann, U. , Law, R., & 9, J.A.J. Metz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521022096 10.1017/CBO9780511525537.028.
Law, R., Dieckmann, U. , & Metz, J.A.J. (2000). The geometry of ecological interactions: Introduction. In: The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity. Eds. Dieckmann, U. , Law, R., & 9, J.A.J. Metz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521022096 10.1017/CBO9780511525537.001.
Metz, J.A.J., Mollison, D., & van den Bosch, F. (1999). The Dynamics of Invasion Waves. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-99-039
Meszena, G. & Metz, J.A.J. (1999). Species Diversity and Population Regulation: The Importance of Environmental Feedback Dimensionality. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-99-045
Metz, J.A.J. & Gyllenberg, M. (1999). How Should We Define Fitness in Structured Metapopulation Models? Including an Application to the Calculation of Evolutionarily Stable Dispersal Strategies. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-99-019