Agricultural Systems Modeller; Spatial Statistician
https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/our-people/alice-milne
Dr Alice Milne (AEM) is a mathematician in the Sustainable Agriculture Sciences Department and leads the Epidemiological Modelling Group within the Biointeractions and Crop Protection Department. Alice has expertise in applying mathematics to biological and agricultural systems. She works on models of crop diseases, weed patch dynamics, and soil nutrients. An increasing and important facet is the inclusion of humans in systems, particularly how cooperation can lead to multiple outcomes. Using a game-theoretic approach, Alice worked on modelling farmer decisions related to the control of O. nubilalis populations in the US and more recently has explored using opinion dynamics to model grower behaviour in response to HLB disease in citrus. Alice is also currently working on the Rothamsted Landscape Model, which is a spatially explicit model of agricultural processes, that is being used to explore production and environmental trade-offs in the landscape. Other areas of expertise include the analysis of spatial data using methods such as wavelets, geostatistics and uncertainty analysis.