(PhD)
Head of Department for Mathematics
Postgraduate Adviser for Mathematics
Director of Computational Modelling (COMO)
Vice-president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ
Office: Science III, room 515
Tel +64 3 479 7889
Email david.bryant@otago.ac.n
About
David Bryant is a world leader in the development of mathematical tools for inferring evolutionary relationships among biological organisms. He has made significant theoretical and practical contributions to phylogenetics — the field of biology studying the reconstruction of evolutionary history. His research has been highly cited and applied to a diverse range of different areas, including early bacterial evolution, plant ecology, rapid identification of pathogens and even the origins of the fairy tales! He was joint winner of the 2016 New Zealand Mathematics Society Research Award.
Prior to coming to Otago, David was an associate professor at McGill University, Montreal, and then at the University of Auckland.
Teaching responsibilities
His teaching responsibilities include:
- MATH 130 Fundamentals of Modern Mathematics 1
- COMO 101 Modeling and Computation
- COMO 204 Differential equations
Research Interests
- Evolutionary Biology, phylogenetics and population genetics
- Metric geometry and mathematical diversities
- Computational Bayesian statistics
See David Bryant's Google Scholar profile for more details.