Mark Alun Lewis (born 7 December 1962) is a

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and

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in the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and Department of Biological Sciences. Among other topics, he has written extensively on the Allee effect,

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, and biological dispersal. In 2015, he was elected as a fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

. He was elected as a fellow of the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...

in 2017, "for contributions to mathematical biology and the study of spatial dynamics processes". In 2018 the

Canadian Mathematical Society The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) (french: Société mathématique du Canada) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research, outreach, scholarship and education in Canada. It serves the ...

listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.

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Living people Canadian ecologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Place of birth missing (living people) Canada Research Chairs University of Alberta faculty Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the Canadian Mathematical Society Presidents of the Canadian Mathematical Society 1962 births 21st-century Canadian scientists {{Canada-scientist-stub