Dr. P. (Patsy) Haccou
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Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 7476
E-Mail: haccou@cml.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden
Office Address: Van Steenis gebouw
Einsteinweg 2
2333 CC Leiden
Room number A320
- Professional Experience
- Patsy Haccou obtained her MSc in mathematical biology in 1983, and her PhD in 1987, at Leiden University. The subject of her PhD research was Continuous time Markov chain modeling of behaviour. In 1987/88 she worked at Cambridge University (UK) and Oxford University (UK) on postdoctoral research fellowships from the Royal Society and the British Council, modeling starling foraging behaviour.
From 1988 to 1994 she obtained a research fellowship from the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), to work on developing a quantitative basis for optimality modeling in behavioural ecology, This research was carried out at Leiden university, Kyushu university (Fukuoka, Japan), Simon Fraser university (Vancouver, Canada), and Stanford university (Palo Alto, USA).
From 1994 onwards she got a tenured position at Leiden university, and she was appointed associate professor in mathematical biology in 1999. From 1999 until 2009 she was section leader of Theoretical Biology at the Institute of Biology.
She joined the Institute of Environmental Sciences in july 2009. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of evolutionary and ecological processes, specifically on stochastic aspects of the interplay between genes, phenotypes and environment.
- Publications
- An overview of her publications (PDF) is available
