Recruiting beneficiary: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany

Internal supervisors: Dr. Chaitanya S. Gokhale, Prof. Arne Traulsen

Brief project description: Evolutionary games are never played in isolation, the advent of multiple games theory therefore begs new studies to improve our understanding of how complex interaction patterns shape the eco-evolutionary dynamics of a population. Building upon the previous work on multiplayer and multiple games, we will  include evolutionary and ecological dynamics and analyse the deterministic properties and effects of instantaneous versus delayed interactions.

Updates: In her work, Małgorzata is focusing on the effects of structure and complex interactions on eco-evolutionary dynamics. She examines the impact of social networks on human interactions and the dissemination of trust and beliefs within small populations; how age structure can serve as a proxy for time delays in multiplayer games, helping us comprehend the influence of time on interactions; and how geographical structures, such as varied dispersal paths between species, influence predator-prey dynamics.

Selected contributions: 

Fic, M. (2023, March 14 ). Collective beliefs and trust in structured populations [Talk]. 2nd Münster Evolution Meeting (MEM). Münster, Germany.

Fic, M. (2022, September 22). Collective beliefs and trust in structured populations [Talk]. 12th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2022). Heidelberg, Germany.

Fic, M. (2022, July 19). Collective beliefs and trust in structured populations [Talk]. Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE) 2022. Reading, UK.