Professor Roderick Dewar

Contacts
Contact email:roderick.dewar@anu.edu.au
Contact phone:+61 2 6125 2447
BSc (Hons) & PhD (University of Edinburgh)
Professor
ANU College of Science
Roderick Dewar's current research looks at the emergent behaviour of complex biological and physical systems - whether individual organisms, ecosystems, turbulent fluids or Earth's climate system - from the common viewpoint of entropy, as the statistical outcome of a large number of underlying degrees of freedom. The main focus is on the principles of maximum entropy and maximum entropy production, and their application to biological problems across a wide range of scales - from understanding the evolutionary optimization of biologically important macromolecules to identifying the key determinants of species diversity in ecological communities.
Groups
- Researcher, Biodiversity
- Researcher, Water and flooding
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