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Fields of study
Physics of complex systems, theoretical ecology, spatial ecology, population dynamics and infectious diseases.
Mentor
Mercedes Pascual
Research interests
I am very interested in the interdisciplinary links between physics and biology with the aim of combining experiments, simulations and theoretical models. My research focuses on two main topics. On the one hand I am working on population ecology of infectious diseases in time and in space. Particularly, I am studying different theoretical models to understand the dynamics of malaria in epidemic regions. On the other hand, I am working on scaling properties of predator-prey systems. Here I am exploring the relationship between the micro-scale of the individual level and the macro-scale of the population level. I am also exploring the role that space plays in this relationship using numerical simulations and scaling theory.
My previous work addressed two topics in animal population ecology. The first one was modeling spatial pattern formation of nests distribution by colonial birds. The second was the statistical analysis of seabird bycatch data in the western Mediterranean and in particular the impact of artisan fisheries activity on the threatened Cory’s shearwater.
Academic background
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan, Mercedes Pascual’s research group, Ann Arbor Michigan, from 3/2008 to the present.
Postdoctoral fellow, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de España, National Program for the mobility of young foreign doctors, IMEDEA, Mallorca-Spain, from 5/2005 to 12/2007.
Postdoctoral fellow, The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Jerome Schottenstein Center for the Research and the Technology of the Cellome, Bar Ilan-Israel, from 5/1/2004 to 12/31/2004.
Ph.D. thesis (2003): “Vermicular Cast Irons: microestructural characterization, austempering kinetics, statistical models and Monte Carlo simulations”, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Degree: Physics (1999). Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Select publications
Jovani, Roger, K. Laneri, A. Rozenfeld, J. Tella and D. Oro. Conspecific attraction and the scaling of bird nest spatial and local abundances patterns. (in preparation).
Laneri, K., M. Louzao, A. Martínez-Abraín, J.M. Arcos, E.J. Belda, J. Guallart, A. Sánchez, M. Giménez, R. Maestre and D. Oro. Assessing the impact of longline fisheries on a marine top predator: a novel modeling approach. (in review).
Laneri, K., P. Bruna and D. Crespo. 2008. Microstructural characterization and kinetics modelling of vermicular cast iron. Materials Science and Technology 24(10):1220.
Rozenfeld, A., K. Laneri and E. Albano. 2006. Critical dynamic approach to stationary states in complex systems. J. Phys IV France 1.
Laneri, K., A. Rozenfeld and E. Albano. 2005. Dynamic critical approach to self-organized criticality. Rapid Communication Physical Review 72:065105 (R) .
Vergara, L., J. Desimoni, K. Laneri, A. Fernández Guillermet and G. J. Zarragoicoechea. 2005. Distribution of interstitial atoms in Fe-N alloys: A Mossbauer, Thermodynamic and Monte Carlo approach. Physica B 363:178-189.
Laneri, K., J. Desimoni, G. J. Zarragoicoechea and A. Fernández Guillermet. 2002. Distribution of carbon atoms in iron carbon austenite: an experimental and theoretical study. Physical Review B 66:134201.
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