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Aaron King
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, 1999
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Mathematics
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Contact information
University of Michigan
2051/56 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 936-7861
Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: kingaa@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Theoretical ecology, epidemiology, population dynamics.
Academic background
I received my Ph.D degree in 1999 from the Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona. I was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2000 and used it to work with Alan Hastings at the University of California in Davis for two years before taking an assistant professorship in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2002. I joined the faculty here at the University of Michigan in 2005 where I hold joint appointments in the Department of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
Graduate students
Clay Cressler, Melissa Brady
King home page
News
NOAA grant award
Professors Mercedes Pascual and Aaron King have been awarded a three-year $395,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for their project “Cholera prediction: The role of the oceans and nonlinear disease dynamics.” This research is a natural extension of Pascual’s previous work with the Oceans and Human Health Initiative. Cholera is heavily influenced by oceanic variability across multiple spatial and temporal scales, providing a strong linkage between the oceans and human health. Cholera is ideal for the development and assessment of quantitative approaches for an early-warning system of disease risk based on ocean variability. Results from studying cholera can guide the development of similar models for bacterial pathognes in coastal waters and other climate-sensitive diseases.
$910K NSF grant to fund new advanced program in biology and mathematics
Congratulations to EEB Professors Aaron King and Mark Hunter on their key roles in this interdepartmental venture with faculty from math, MCDB, and emergency medicine. The National Science Foundation has awarded $910,000 to develop this undergraduate program.
Dubbed SUBMERGE, the program will fund up to 12 students for two years at a time, to learn cutting-edge research. Changes will be implemented in the math and biology curriculums, resources and training experience in theory and experiments will teach students to become interdisciplinary scientists.
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