Lukas Eigentler

Lukas.Eigentler --AT-- warwick.ac.uk

Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, Warwick Mathematics Institute, The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER)

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Summary:
I am a mathematical biologist/ecologist with particular interests in pattern formation, competition and coexistence theory, and evolution. Click here to find out more about my work.

Bio:
I joined the University of Warwick as an assistant professor in 2024. Prior to that, I spent a year (2023) as a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolutionary Biology Group led by Klaus Reinhold at the University of Bielefeld. Between 2020 and 2022, I was a postdoc in the lab led by Nicola R. Stanley-Wall in the Division of Molecular Microbiology and with Fordyce A. Davidson in the Division of Mathematics the University of Dundee. I obtained my PhD at the Maxwell Institute Graduate School in Analysis and its Applications (MIGSAA), a Centre for Doctoral Training at Heriot-Watt University and The University of Edinburgh in 2020, where I worked under the supervision of Jonathan A. Sherratt.

A more detailed description of my work can be found here.

Email address:
lukas.eigentler --AT-- warwick.ac.uk

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Address:
Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL

Where you can meet me next:

05-09 May 2025: MPDEE 2025 at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in Bilbao.

02-16 July 2025: I will be visiting the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon.

26-30 January 2026: Modelling Diffusive Systems (MoDiS) at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Vienna.

Latest news:

14/02/2025: Mrinal Kanti Pal (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) and I have been awarded a London Mathematical Society Collaborations with Developing Countries - Scheme 5 award.

18/09/2024: New paper with Mattia Sensi on a delayed loss of stability phenomonon in periodic travelling waves: L. Eigentler, M. Sensi: Delayed loss of stability of periodic travelling waves: insights from the analysis of essential spectra J. Theor. Biol., 595 (2024), 111945. DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111945

30/08/2024: Klaus Reinhold (Bielefeld), David W. Kikuchi (Oregon State) and I have published a break in The Science Breaker: L. Eigentler, K. Reinhold, D.W. Kikuchi: Feisty fish and birds with attitude: Why does evolution not lead to identical individuals? The Science Breaker 10:3 (2024), DOI: 10.25250/thescbr.brk793

04/07/2024: Ivric Valaire Yatat Djeumen (Universite of Yaounde I) and I have been awarded a Royal Society International Exchanges award.

24/06/2024: New paper with Thibault Rosazza (UC Irvine), Chris Earl, Fordyce A. Davdidson and Nicola R. Stanley-Wall (all Dundee) on the role of extracellular proteases as a public good during Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation: T. Rosazza, C.S. Earl, L. Eigentler, F.A. Davidson, N.R. Stanley-Wall: Reciprocal sharing of two classes of public goods facilitates Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation. Mol. Microbiol., in press. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.15288

26/03/2024: New paper with Klaus Reinhold (Bielefeld) and David W. Kikuchi (Oregon State) on the maintainance of individual variability in a competitive trait: K. Reinhold, L. Eigentler, David W. Kikuchi: Evolution of individual variation in a competitive trait: a theoretical analysis. J. Evol. Biol. voae036 (2024), DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voae036

01/01/2024: I have started a new role as Assistant Professor at the Warwick Mathematics Institute.