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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

Dieckmann, U. & Law, R. (1996). The Dynamical Theory of Coevolution: A Derivation from Stochastic Ecological Processes. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-96-001

Marrow, P., Dieckmann, U. , & Law, R. (1996). Evolutionary Dynamics of Predator-Prey Systems: An Ecological Perspective. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-96-002

Law, R., Marrow, P., & Dieckmann, U. (1996). On Evolution under Asymmetric Competition. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-96-003

Dieckmann, U. (1996). The Dynamical Theory of Coevolution. Doctoral thesis, Leiden University.