Martin Nowak

Martin Nowak
Dr. Martin Nowak at PED, Harvard, 2014
Born	April 7, 1965 (1965-04-07) (age 51) Vienna, Austria
Residence	United States
Nationality	Austrian
Fields	Mathematical Biology
Institutions	Harvard University Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry University of Oxford Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Doctoral advisor	Karl Sigmund
Other academic advisors	Robert May
Doctoral students	Robert Payne, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Marc Lipsitch, Dov Stekel, Dov Stekel, Ramy Arnaout, Ruy Ribeiro, Barbara Bittner, Joshua Plotkin, William Mitchener, Erick Matsen, Martin Willensdorfer, Katherine Paur, Corina Tarnita, David G. Rand, Anna Dreber Almenberg, Feng Fu, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Michael Manapat, Jean-Baptiste Michel
Known for	Evolution of cooperation, Virus dynamics, Evolutionary dynamics, Spatial games, Language evolution, Cancer dynamics
Notable awards	Weldon Memorial Prize Albert Wander Prize

Martin Andreas Nowak (born April 7, 1965) is the Professor of Biology and Mathematics and Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University.

Martin Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University of Vienna, and earned his Ph. D. in 1989, working with Peter Schuster on quasi-species theory and with Karl Sigmund on evolution of cooperation. In 1989, he moved to Oxford as an Erwin Schrödinger Scholar to work with Robert May, becoming Head of Mathematical Biology in 1995 and Professor of Mathematical Biology in 1997. In 1998 he moved to the IAS at Princeton to establish the first program in Theoretical Biology there. In 2003, Nowak was recruited to Harvard University as Professor of Mathematics and Biology. He is Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics which was funded with a $30 million pledge by Jeffrey Epstein and his foundation, the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, a friend of Nowak who had supported his work in the past.

Nowak works on the dynamics of infectious diseases, cancer genetics, the evolution of cooperation and human language. His first book, Virus Dynamics (written with Robert May) was published by Oxford University Press, 2000. Nowak is a corresponding member of the Austrian academy of sciences. He won the Weldon Memorial Prize, the Albert Wander Prize, the Akira Okubo Prize, the David Starr Jordan Prize and the Henry Dale Prize. His 2006 book Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life was published in 2006 to critical acclaim and won the Association of American Publishers R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work of 2006.