Erik Rauch
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| Born |
Erik Rauch May 15, 1974 |
| Died | July 13, 2005 (aged 31) California's Sequoia National Park United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Stanford University Yale University, B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics |
| Occupation | Biophysicist and theoretical ecologist |
| Employer |
NECSI MIT Santa Fe Institute Yale University IBM Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University |
| Known for | Founder of MetaCarta, ALife, TerraShare |
Erik Rauch (May 15, 1974 – July 13, 2005) was a biophysicist and theoretical ecologist who worked at NECSI, MIT, Santa Fe Institute, Yale University, Princeton University, and other institutions. Rauch's most notable paper was published in Nature and concerned the mathematical modeling of the conservation of biodiversity.
He received a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Yale University in May 1996, where he was the technician for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. His undergraduate thesis was "The Geometry of Critical Ising Clusters", under the direction of Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractal geometry. He then worked at the IBM Watson Research Center in the theoretical physics department, and began graduate study at Stanford University in 1996.
He received his PhD. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 under the direction of Gerald Sussman: his thesis topic was " Diversity of Evolving Systems: Scaling and Dynamics of Genealogical Trees "
He then joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Simon A. Levin, the Moffett professor of Biology in 2005, and was in that position at his early death.
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