Matina Donaldson

I am a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle, but am currently spending much of my time at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. I got my bachelor's degree in mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and then spent six years programming for dot-coms before restlessness led me back into academics. Now I am focusing on using game theory and information theory to create qualitative models of the evolution of learning and behavior. I am particularly interested in understanding how organisms evolve to collect information about a changing environment; why they might begin to signal to each other about such an environment; and how learning evolves and in turn affects the course of further evolution. For more information see my web page.