Alan Matthew Hastings is a mathematical ecologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis.
[2] Alan Hastings published his first paper, dealing with eliminating viability differences in computing recombination percentages,[3] in 1972 at the age of 19.
He began a career in education in 1977 at Washington State University, where he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics for two years.
His work includes "cornerstone papers on population dynamics in stochastic environments" which have led to "major advances in theory, and also deeply influenced practice in the conservation of species".
Alan continues to run the Hastings lab at the University of California, Davis, where he is beloved by the "numerous outstanding young scientists" he has trained.