Rate My Professor Mike Bonsall

Professor Mike Bonsall is Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at St Peter’s College. He completed his undergraduate degree, PhD in Insect Population Dynamics in 1997, and a Royal Society research fellowship in the Department of Biological Sciences at Imperial College London before joining Oxford. His research focuses on applications of mathematics to problems in the life sciences, with particular interests in population biology including population dynamics, community ecology, and evolutionary ecology. Research in his group examines topics such as the population and evolutionary dynamics of life history strategies including 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 projects combine theoretical models with experiments or observations in the field or laboratory to test ecological and evolutionary theories by fitting mathematical models to data.