Ulf Dieckmann
Principal Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Principal Research Scholar
Cooperation and Transformative Governance Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Principal Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Ulf Dieckmann is a Principal Research Scholar in IIASA's Advancing Systems Analysis Program. He is working on the theory of adaptive dynamics, fisheries-induced evolution, cooperation evolution, speciation theory, spatial ecology, life-history theory, and on problems in theoretical evolutionary ecology.He received his bachelor's degree in physics and his master's degree in theoretical physics from the University of Aachen, Germany. He completed his PhD research on theoretical biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and obtained his Habilitation (venia legendi) in biomathematics from the University of Vienna.
He has worked at Stanford University and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, California, USA, the Research Center Julich, Germany, the University of York, UK, Leiden University, the Netherlands, and the University of Vienna, Austria. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Montpellier, France, and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany. He is a visiting professor at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Hayama, Japan.
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Last update: 01 JUL 2025
Publications
Falster, D.S., FitzJohn, R.G., Brännström, Å., Dieckmann, U. , Westoby, M., & McMahon, S. (2016). plant: A package for modelling forest trait ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7 (2) 136-146. 10.1111/2041-210X.12525.
Heino, M. , Diaz Pauli, B., & Dieckmann, U. (2015). Fisheries-induced evolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 46 461-480. 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054339.
Kaiser, C., Franklin, O. , Richter, A., & Dieckmann, U. (2015). Social dynamics within decomposer communities lead to nitrogen retention and organic matter build-up in soils. Nature Communications 6 no.8960. 10.1038/ncomms9960.
Sjödin, H., Brännström, Å., Mazzucco, R., & Dieckmann, U. (2015). The Formation of Structured Cooperative Communities. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 - 13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.
Mazzucco, R., Ficker, H., Gassner, H., Wanzenboeck, J., Nguyen, T.V., Kim, D. , Heo, M., Chon, T.S., & Dieckmann, U. (2015). Freshwater Ecosystems: From Models to Applications. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.