I am interested in stochastic models describing biological phenomena, e.g. evolution and spread of populations.

Publications

[3] M. Esser, A. Kraut. “Crossing a fitness valley in a changing environment: With and without pit stop” (In preparation)

[2] M. Esser, A. Kraut. "Effective growth rates in a periodically changing environment: From mutation to invasion" Stochastic Process. Appl. 184, 104598 (2025)  arXiv:2310.20509

[1] M. Esser, A. Kraut. "A general multi-scale description of metastable adaptive motion across fitness valleys" J. Math. Biol. 89, 46 (2024)