Professor Sahotra Sakar

Sahotra Sakar

Professor Sarkar is Professor in the Departments of Integrative Biology and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and External Faculty at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). By training, he is a philosopher of science and applied mathematician. Besides these disciplines, his laboratory focuses on disease ecology and epidemiology and conservation biology. Work in the laboratory focuses on comprehensive multi-purpose spatial planning using formal techniques from ecology and decision theory.