Prof. Nils Chr. Stenseth was elected as an AAS Fellow in 2024. As a fellow, Prof. Nils Chr. Stenseth contributes to the development of the Academy's strategic direction through participation in AAS activities and governance structures. This gears the Academy's vision of transforming African lives through science.
Country
Norway
Year Elected
2024
Discipline
Professor in ecological and evolutionary science
Country
Norway
Year Elected
2024
Discipline
Professor in ecological and evolutionary science
Professor Stenseth (http://www.mn.uio.no/cees/stenseth with links to his CV and a full publication) is a world-leading ecologist and evolutionary biologist who has pioneered the integration of diverse sub-disciplines (e.g., population biology, statistical and mathematical modelling, genomics, epidemiology, and history) to address fundamental questions of long-standing importance. His intellectual versatility has enabled him to eliminate barriers between a wide range of disciplines, both biological and non-biological. The uniqueness of his work lies in a masterful ability to meld data from very divergent fields and so generate truly novel insights. Despite an extraordinary range of research interests, he has not forsaken depth of scientific inquiry.
Professor Stenseth continues to merge various biological disciplines, particularly in ecological and evolutionary science. This process of integration culminated in the establishment of his highly successful and prestigious Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), a Norwegian Centre of Excellence. CEES has become a world-leading institution specialized in bringing ecological and evolutionary thinking closer together. Over a 10-year period, researchers associated with CEES published more than 1450 scientific papers, 14 of which were in Nature and Science.
Professor Stenseth has a strong link to Africa – particularly Ethiopia – where he has trained 10 PhD and several Master students. Currently he is developing an “African/European Cluster of Excellence in Conservation Biology Research and Training” under the joint umbrella of the African ARUA and the European the Guild, a project involving several research-intensive African and European universities. Currently he is also working on, as the main corresponding PI, an European-Reacher-Council (ERC) funded Synergy project (Synergy-Plague: “Reconstructing the environmental, biological, and societal drivers of plague outbreaks in Eurasia between 1300 and 1900 CE”) – see https://www.synergy-plague.org/.