Professor Lutscher is professor of applied mathematics and mathematical biology. He joined the University of Ottawa in 2005 after a PIMS postdoctoral fellowship at the Universities of Alberta and Calgary. He completed his PhD at the University of Tuebingen in 2000.
Professor Lutscher is the recipient of the CAIMS Research Prize (2022), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2016-2018) and an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2007).
Selected publications
- F. Lutscher (2019), Integrodifference equations in spatial ecology Springer, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Vol. 49, 385 pages
- E. Crone, L. Brown, J Hodgson, F. Lutscher and C. Schultz (2019), Faster movement in habitat matrix promotes faster range shifts in heterogeneous landscapes. Ecology 100(7): e02701
- R. Arumugam, F. Lutscher, F. Guichard (2021) Tracking unstable states: Ecosystem dynamics in a changing world. Oikos 130(4): 525-540
- S. Portalier, J.-N.-Candau, F. Lutscher (2022) A temperature-driven model for phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer-resource interactions. Ecography e06259
- C. Cobbold, F. Lutscher, B. Yurk (2022) Bridging the scale gap: predicting large-scale population dynamics from small-scale variation in strongly heterogeneous landscapes. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 866-879
Research Group
- Applied Mathematics