Ohad Vilk

I am a PhD student at the Racah Institute of Physics and the movement ecology lab. My aim is to study the role of stochasticity in movement patterns of ATLAS movement data, at the intersection of statistical mechanics and ecology. Among my efforts are the study of anomalous diffusion and continuous time random walks in the context of individual animal movement, and memory based movement models such as edge reinforced random walks. Currently, I am working on movement segments of the Barn Owl, Tyto alba, and the Egyptian Fruit Bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus.
I also have a background in mathematical modeling of population dynamics. In my MSc, at the Racah Institute of Physics, I worked on mathematical expressions for the extinction risk of a time dependent population and for the extinction risk of a metapopulation under bi-stable local dynamics.