About the Speaker
Joel E. Cohen is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations and head of the Laboratory of Populations at the Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York. At Columbia University, he holds appointments in the Earth Institute and the Department of International and Public Affairs and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; and is affiliated with the Department of Statistics. He is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.
He studies the demography, ecology, epidemiology and social organization of human and non-human populations and mathematical concepts useful in these fields. He earned doctorates in applied mathematics in 1970 and population sciences and tropical public health in 1973 from Harvard University. He has published 14 books (4 written as sole author, 4 co-authored, 5 edited, and one translated) and more than 410 papers and chapters.
In 1984, he was named one of "America's Top 100 Young Scientists" by Science Digest. In 1981, he was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1981-82) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1981-86).
