Vishwesh Guttal

Dr. Vishwesh Guttal is a faculty member of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He works on self-organization, emergent patterns and spatiotemporal dynamics in the ecological world, from flocks of birds and swarming insects to striking spatial patterns of vegetation. As a Simons visitor he will interact with, in particular, Sandeep Krishna and Shashi Thutupali on studying collective behaviour empirically, especially on testing experimentally results of evolutionary dynamic models. Apart from these, he will also interact with other theorists, like Mukund Thattai and Madan Rao, as well as research labs of the Ecology and Evolution group at NCBS.