L Ancel-Meyers

Philip W. Anderson, Science Board, SFI • Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, Physics

W. Brian Arthur, External Professor, SFI • Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Intelligent Systems Lab
Economics

Robert Axtell, External Professor, SFI • Professor and Chair, George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Computational Social Science
Agent-based modeling of social and natural systems

John Bengtson, visitor, SFI • Vice-President, Editor of Mother Tongue, Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory
Historical/Comparative Linguistics • Scandinavian languages and linguistics • Indo-European linguistics • African languages • Dene-Caucasian languages • Austric languages • Paleolinguistics (the study of prehistory through linguistic evidence) • Genetic classification of languages

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Professor, SFI • TSM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-8
Evolution of Viruses and Host-Virus Interactions • Phylogenetic Methods and their Applications • Rational Design of Vaccines • Observed Quantum Systems

Lawrence Blume, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Economics and Information Science, Cornell University, Economics

Elhanan Borenstein • Stanford University and the Santa Fe Institute
Evolutionary dynamics • Systems biology and computational biology • Robustness • Interaction between learning, imitation and evolution

Sam Bowles, Professor, SFI • Professor Economics, University of Siena
Evolution of Human Cooperation • Dynamics of Economic Inequality Behavioral • Institutional Innovation • Other-Regarding Motives

Robert Boyd, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of California-Los Angeles, Department of Anthropology
Anthropology

Adam Brandenburger • J.P. Valles Professor of Business Economics and Strategy, Stern School of Business, New York University
Foundations of Game Theory • • Application of Game Theory to Business Strategy

Dirk Brockmann • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Department of Nonlinear Dynamics
Dynamics of human infectious diseases • Anomalous Transport in physics and biology

Jim Brown, External Professor, Science Steering Committee, SFI • Distinguished Professor, University of New Mexico, Biology

Timothy G. Buchman, Ph.D., M.D., FACS, FCCM, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Surgery / General Surgery - Acute and Critical Care Surgery
Emergency Surgery • Burn/Trauma/Surgical Critical Care

Carlos Castillo-Chavez, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Arizona State University, Mathematics and Statistics
Biomathematics

Xingzhi Cheng, Postdoc Fellow, SFI • PhD, National University of Singapore
Statistical Physics • Stochastic Processes • Dynamics in Financial Market

Morten Christiansen, External Professor, SFI • Co-Director of Cognitive Science @ Cornell, Cornell University, Department of Psychology

Aaron Clauset, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Complex networks • Statistical inference • Mechanisms and models • Evolution • Conflict

Nathan Collins, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Political Behavior • Evolutionary Game Theory • Adaptive Social Systems

Lisa Curran, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Yale University, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Topics: Ecology, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Global Change Science and Policy, Social Ecology of Conservation and Development • • Expertise: Biodiversity and Habitat; Carbon Sequestration; Climate Change (Global Warming); Deforestation (Logging); Forestry; Land Use; National Parks; Parks and Protected Areas; Public Lands; Sustainable Forestry; Tropical Forest Ecosystems

Jelena Cvorovic, international visitor, SFI • research fellow, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Ethnography,
Human cooperative behavior, traditional cultural behavior (magic practices) and the evolutionary model.

Anna Dreber • Stockholm School of Economics, Economics
Evolution of cooperation • Foundations of preferences • Risk preferences • The marriage market • Wine economics

Jennifer A. Dunne, Research Fellow, SFI • Co-Director, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
Ecology • Networks • Paleobiology • Coupled Human-Natural Systems • Ecoinformatics

Nathan Eagle, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI • Research Scientist, MIT
Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems

Joshua M. Epstein, External Professor, SFI • Director, Center on Social & Economic Dynamics; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
Modeling of complex social, economic, and biological systems using agent-based computational models and nonlinear dynamical systems, with applications to economics, public health, and international security.

J. Doyne Farmer, Professor, Science Steering Committee, SFI
Social evolution • Financial markets • Evolution of technology

Marcus W. Feldman, External Professor, Science Steering Committee, SFI • Professor, Stanford University, Biological Sciences

Jessica Flack, Research Fellow, SFI
Evolutionary Construction (robustness, innovation, construction principles, conflict & conflict management, evolution of signaling systems, network coding, drivers of social complexity, evolution of structure)

Duncan Foley, External Professor, SFI • Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, Economics

Stephanie Forrest, External Professor, Science Board, SFI • Professor and Dept. Chair, University of New Mexico, Computer Science
Immune System Modeling • Computer Immune Systems • Cancer as an Evolutionary System • Negative Representations of Information

John Geanakoplos, External Professor, Science Board, Chair Science Steering Committee, SFI • James Tobin Professor of Economics, Yale University, Economics

Austin Gerig, Postdoctoral Researcher, SFI
Dynamics of Financial Markets

Herbert Gintis, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Central European University, Economics
Dynamics of General Equilibrium • Unification of the Behavioral Sciences • Modeling Cooperation in Humans • Evolutionary Game Theory • Behavioral Economics

Michelle Girvan

William (Bill) G. Glenney, IV, Business Network Fellow, SFI • CNO Strategic Studies Group, U.S. Navy
Groupcraft and National Security • • Statement of Purpose – Research and generate principles related to the behavior of groups in support of the development of “groupcraft” as part of the U.S. national security strategy. • • Discussion – The U.S. National Security Strategy over the next 20 years will be based on the need to maintain the viability of the nation-state of the United States, protect its territory and citizens, promote stability, maintain peace and deter aggression, leverage technology, and enable economic growth and freedom. Simultaneously, the U.S. government must foster the growth of the power of the individual and responsible affinity groups, people naturally joined over a common idea or vision that is not necessarily related to a nation-state. The U.S. National Security Strategy for 2025 must ensure that the United States can act in an environment and succeed in a competition in statecraft and in groupcraft. • • Relationship to existing SFI research themes – the proposed research has direct relationships to the following SFI research: • - emergent behavior, • - resilience, • - communities, • - agents, • - flocking, • - human cooperation and communication, • - collaboration networks, • - community structure in social networks, • - clustering and preferential attachment, • - localized ethnic conflict and genocide, • - adaptive governance, • - loyalty, • - social capital and community governance, and • - chaos and politics.

David Goldbaum • University of Technology Sydney, School of Finance and Economics
Heterogeneous agent models in finance and economics • Learning and adaptation by economic agents

George Gumerman, External Professor, SFI • School for Advanced Research, Archeology and Anthropology

Peter Hammerstein, External Professor, SFI • Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Theoretical Biology

Cesar A. Hidalgo • Harvard University, Center for International Development
Empirical network dynamics and the use of it as a novel way to analyze large data sets.

John H. Holland, Trustee, Science Board, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Computer Science/Engineering/Psychology

Daniel Hruschka, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI • Anthropology
Evolution of Social Institutions

Matthew Jackson, External Professor, SFI • William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Economics
Social and Economic Networks • Game Theory • Voting and Social Choice Theory • War and Conflict

Marco Janssen • Arizona State University
Institutional innovation in commons dilemmas • Robustness of social-ecological systems • Transitions of societies in long duree

Saibal Kar, Visiting Researcher, SFI • Fellow in Economics (Associate Professor), Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, Economics
Human capital Formation in Societies • Occupational Choice Patterns • Social and Economic Mobility

Jinyun Ke • Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Michigan, English Language Institute
first and second language acquisition • language change

Willemien Kets, Postdoctoral fellow, SFI • Extramural fellow, CentER, Tilburg University
Game Theory • Networks • Learning

Ardeshir Kianercy, Researcher, SFI • University of Southern California (USC), Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Evolution of Technology

Tim Kohler, External Professor, SFI • Regents Professor, Washington State University, Anthropology
Social & ecological processes in Neolithic societies • Agent-based modeling • Robustness & resilience in human societies • Cultural transmission & human behavioral ecology

Bette Korber, Visiting Researcher, External Faculty, Science Steering Committee, SFI • Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Immunology • Theoretical Biology • Biophysics

David Krakauer, Professor, Science Steering Committee, SFI
Evolution • Signaling • Information and Computation • Microbes

David Lane, External Professor, Science Board, SFI • Professor, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Economics
Innovation in agent-artifact space

Steve Lansing, Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Arizona, Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Complexity and Social Theory • Ecological anthropology • Robustness of Coupled Human-Natural Systems • Social structure, language and genetics • Ethnology of Indonesia

Simon A. Levin, Co-Chair of Science Board, Ex-Officio Trustee, SFI • Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Honghai Liu, Visitor, SFI • Post Doctoral Fellow, Nankai University, Finance Department
Hierarchical Organization Governance • General Equilibrium under Changing Strategy Space

Eric Maskin, Science Board, SFI • Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science

David Michayluk • Associate Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, School of Finance and Economics
Market Microstructure of Financial Markets

John H. Miller, Professor, SFI • Professor of Economics and Social Sciences and Head, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Complex Adaptive Social Systems

Martina Morris, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Washington
Analysis of Social Structure • Population Dynamics

Michel Morvan, External Professor, SFI • IXXI-Complex Systems Institute-LIP-Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Computer Science
Complex systems modelling methods • Robustness of complex systems • Modelling morphogenesis of plants and animals

Béla Nagy, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Technological progress • Learning • Innovation • Computer simulation • Prediction • Uncertainty

Louis Narens • Professor, University of California, Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences & Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Sci
Evolution of Language and Psychological Categories • Decision Theory • Theory of Measurement • Foundations of Science

Susanne Neckermann • Universität Zürich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics
Role of social recognition for human decision making and differences across cultures

Kazuo Nishimura, External Professor, SFI • Director, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research
Economic Theory

Maya Paczuski, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Physics and Head of Complexity Science Group, University of Calgary
Distributed Information Networks • Structure of Complex Networks • Complex Dynamical Systems • Sociophysics

John Padgett, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Chicago, Political Science

Scott Page, External Professor, SFI • Research Professor Center for Political Studies; Associate Director, Center for, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Formal Modeling • Research Methods

Karen Page • University College London, Mathematics
Cancer • Evolutionary dynamics • Pattern formation in embryogenesis • Cellular signalling

Yusheng Peng, Visitor, SFI • Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, Sociology
Social networks and informal institutions • Institutional change and evolution

John Pepper, External Professor, SFI • Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary theory and its applications • Multilevel selection • Evolution of cooperation and conflict

Alan Perelson, External Professor, Science Board, SFI • Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mathematical and Theoretical Biology • Biophysics

Walter (Woody) Powell, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Stanford University, School of Education
Networks • Institutions • University-Industry Interfaces • Economic Sociology • Comparing Institutional Forms

Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert • Assistant Professor, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Sociologia
Moral Behavior • Social Learning • Social Networks

Van Savage • Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology

Daniel Schrag, External Professor, Science Board, SFI • Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Director, Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography
Isotope Geochemistry • Paleoclimatology • Geochemical Oceanography

Yonathan Schwarzkopf, Graduate Fellow, SFI • Graduate Student, California Institute of Technology, Physics
The Dynamics of Financial Markets.

Rajiv Sethi, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University, Dept. of Economics
Economics • Group Inequality

Cosma Shalizi, External Professor, SFI • Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics Department
Quantitative measures of complexity and self-organization • Nonlinear prediction theory • Statistical inference and machine learning for stochastic processes • Hidden Markov models and stochastic automata • Cellular automata and random fields on networks • Structure and information flow in complex networks • Statistics of heavy-tailed distributions • Neural coding and computation • Political networks • Foundations of statistics and statistical mechanics

Martin Shubik, External Professor, SFI • Seymour Knox Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics, Yale University, Economics

D. Eric Smith, Professor, SFI
Physical and Chemical Self-Organization • Origin of Life • Money, Markets, and Institutions • Biomolecular Information and Evolvability

Ricard Solé, External Professor, SFI • Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Systems, Synthetic and Network Biology

Charles Stevens, External Professor, Science Board, Science Steering Committee, SFI • The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Neurobiology

Colleen Strawhacker • Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Alan Swedlund, External Professor, SFI • Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Anthropology
Population and health in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary settings.

Laurent Tambayong • University of California, Irvine, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

Vladimir Teif
Quantitative Description of Gene Regulation ans Signal Transduction

Brian F. Tivnan, SFI Business Network Fellow, SFI • Principal, The MITRE Corporation

Sergi Valverde • Post-doc reseacher, University Pompeu Fabra, ICREA-Complex Systems Lab
Structure and Evolution of Software Networks, Origins of Innovation in Technological Systems, Morphogenesis and Self-organization of Insect Nests, Complex Network Theory

Sander van der Leeuw, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Archaeology, Director, Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Longer-term evolution of socio-environmental systems • Innovation in urban contexts • Evolution of human cognition over the last 3 M years • Robustness, resilience and vulnerability of socio-environmental systems

Duncan Watts, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Columbia University, Sociology

Ken Weiss, External Professor, SFI • Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Genetics, Penn State University
Human genetics • Evolutionary biology

Geoffrey West, President and Distinguished Professor, SFI
Universal Scaling Laws in Biology • Fundamental Laws in Biology

Douglas R. White, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Anthropology, University of California-Irvine, Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Science
Computational social science • Mathematical anthropology • Social networks • Longitudinal analysis • Development and social change • Social simulation and game theory • Complex Historical Dynamics

Jon Wilkins, Professor, SFI
Evolutionary Genetics • Genetic Conflict and Coevolution • Human Demographic History

Henry T. Wright, External Professor, Science Board, Science Steering Committee, SFI • Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology
Modeling Cultural Adaptation and Evolution • The Emergence of Chiefdoms and States • Pleistocene Cultural Adaptations

Hyejin Youn • KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Physics
Statistical physics • Complex network

Peyton Young, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics