Ottar Nordal Bjørnstad

Ottar Nordal Bjørnstad (born 24 October 1969 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Norwegian–American theoretical ecologist and mathematical epidemiologist. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Biology at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), where he also holds the J. Lloyd & Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair of Epidemiology. He is affiliated with Penn State's [https://www.cidd.psu.edu Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics] (CIDD) and has held visiting and research appointments at institutions in Norway, the United States, and Australia.

Bjørnstad's research lies at the intersection of ecology, mathematical biology, and statistics. He is best known for his contributions to the study of spatiotemporal population dynamics, the analysis of epidemic and outbreak cycles, and the development of computational tools for ecological data analysis. Provided by Wikipedia