Joel E. Cohen

Joel E. Cohen (b. February 10, 1944) is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University and a professor of populations at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York City.

Cohen grew up in Washington DC and Michigan and graduated from Cranbrook School in 1961. He received his B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1965, and earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1970. In 1973, he received from Harvard another doctorate in population sciences and tropical public health.

He has since taught or lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the National University of San Luis, Argentina, the Central University of Venezuela, and the University of California at Berkeley. He has also held numerous fellowships, including ones with the Harvard Society of Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

He was named "One of America's Top 100 Young Scientists" by Science Digest in 1984. His research has won him numerous awards, including the Sheps Award from the Population Association of America, the Distinguished Statistical Ecologist Award, and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1999. He is also currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Works

Cohen is the author 12 books and 325 articles, including:

*"How Many People Can the Earth Support?" (1995)
*"Comparison of Stochastic Matrices, with Applications in Information Theory, Statistics, Economics and Population Sciences" (1998)
*"Forecasting Product Liability Claims: Epidemiology and Modeling in the Manville Asbestos Case" (2004)

ources

*http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/cohenje/cohenvita.php