Michael Russell Golinski

Michael Russell Golinski is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Biology from New Mexico State University (2006) and combines expertise in theoretical ecology and applied mathematics.

• Education: Ph.D. (Theoretical Biology), New Mexico State University, 2006.

His research focuses on population and community dynamics, particularly:

• Developing statistical and mathematical models for estimating organismal occupancy, abundance, and density.
• Analyzing temporal and spatio-temporal dynamics of nonlinear ecological systems across multitrophic interactions (predator–prey, host–parasite, mutualist–host).
• Investigating ecological responses to environmental variability using nonlinear time series analysis, with applications to diapausing insect populations, arthropod-borne viruses, and climate change.
• Studying nonlinear dynamics of infectious diseases (e.g., H5N1 avian influenza, Dengue, HIV) in relation to environmental drivers.
• Exploring the relationship between structure and dynamics in large ecological interaction networks (consumer-resource, mutualistic, parasitic links).