Research Bio

Perry de Valpine is a mathematical and statistical ecologist. His research interests include population dynamics, theoretical ecology, and computational methods for fitting biologically realistic models to data. He is a lead developer of NIMBLE (r-nimble.org), a flexible computational system for hierarchical statistical modeling. He has contributed to modeling and data analysis of many systems in environmental science, including bird communities, large carnivore populations, agricultural insect dynamics, forest change, soil microbiomes, plant chemical diversity, fisheries, and more. De Valpine is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and teaches courses on statistical and mathematical modeling methods in ecology and environmental science.

Research Expertise and Interest

population ecology, mathematical modeling and statistics