Anthony Ives, a biologist who uses mathematical models to illuminate the changes within ecosystems, is one of two new recipients of a Steenbock Professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Endowed more than 30 years ago by Evelyn Steenbock — wife of Harry Steenbock, an emeritus biochemistry professor — Steenbock Professorships provide a group of outstanding UW-Madison faculty with 10 years of financial support for their research programs.
Ives, the new Steenbock Professor of Biological Sciences, joined the Department of Zoology in 1990.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ives uses mathematical models to understand patterns of variation in many ecosystems across time and space. To that end, he has studied the balance attained by agricultural pests in alfalfa fields and the pests' numerous predators, as well as contrasting large and unpredictable fluctuations in fly populations on a lake in Iceland. Ives received the Robert H. MacArthur Award from the Ecological Society of America in 2012, and a Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008.
Su-Chun Zhang, a professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Public Health, is the other new Steenbock Professor.
Read more about the Steenbock Professorships from University Communications.