SMTPB members have been making outstanding contributions within and beyond our community. We seek to recognize these contributions with several awards.
Scott H. Williamson Award About. Beginning in 2025, the Scott Williamson Award is awarded annually by the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology to recognize the achievements and promise of an outstanding early-career researcher in the area of modeling and theory in population biology. Learn more here. Scott Williamson (1975-2008) was an accomplished early-career researcher who worked in theoretical population genetics and evolutionary modeling. A humble, kind, and well-liked scientist, Scott made significant theory contributions to understanding the dynamics of natural selection in populations. His work employed several modeling traditions, including coalescent theory, Poisson random fields, and sequence substitution models. He also applied insights from statistical population genetics to study selection from genetic sequences in many different organisms, including Drosophila, humans, rice, and HIV. A native of Kansas, Scott received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Kansas. Shortly after starting a faculty position at Cornell University, Scott passed away from brain cancer.
Winners 2026 Brian Lerch (UC Davis)
2025 Anuraag Bukkuri (University of Pittsburgh)
| Outstanding Presentation and Poster Awards About. Beginning in 2024, the society recognizes outstanding oral presentations and posters from PhDs and postdoctoral scholars attending the annual SMTPB conference. The award is a book prize sponsored by Princeton University Press. Past winners 2026 (ICERM) Outstanding Presentation Postdocs: Margaret Simon (University of Kansas), Maximillian Newman (University of Chicago) PhD student: Daniel Bauman (Stanford) Outstanding Poster PhD students: Aalhad Bhatt (Emory), Ulises Hernandez (U Arizona), Chloe Shiff (Stanford)
Photo (left to right): Chloe Shiff, Ulises Hernandez. Aalhad Bhatt, [SMTPB board member Mark Broom], Maximillian Newman, Daniel Bauman, Margaret Simon. 2025 (NITMB) Outstanding Presentation Postdoc: Talia Borofsky (Princeton University) PhD students: Puneeth Deraje (University of Toronto), Marida Ianni-Ravn (University of Chicago) Outstanding Poster Postdoc: Margaret Simon (University of Kansas) PhD students: Olivia Ghosh (Stanford University), Maike Morrison (Stanford University)
Some of the 2025 winners (left to right): Puneeth Deraje, Marida Ianni-Ravn, Talia Borofsky 2024 (Banff) Outstanding Presentation Maike Morrison (Stanford University)
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