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

Nihat Ay, External Professor, SFI • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Mathematics

Carl Bergstrom, External Professor, SFI • Associate Professor, University of Washington, Dept. of Biology
Information flow in biological systems • Ecology and evolution of infectious disease • Economics of scientific publishing • Risk and evolution • Evolution of immune systems

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

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

Rogier Braakman • Graduate student, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
THz spectroscopy • Astrochemistry • Chemical Reaction Network Theory • Origin of Life • Evolution of metabolic networks

Aaron Bramson, Visitor, SFI • Graduate Student and ... I don't know, University of Michigan and Lockheed Martin, Philosophy & Political Science and Integrated Systems and Solutions
Measures of Complexity and System-Level Properties • Agent-Based and Network Methodology • Visualization and Human Interface • Evolution of Morality and Social Institutions • Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

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

James P. Crutchfield, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, Complexity Sciences Center and Physics Department
Nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and pattern formation • Nonlinear physics: Solid-state physics, astrophysics, fluid mechanics, critical phenomena and phase transitions • Computational mechanics • Physics of complexity • Statistical inference for nonlinear processes • Genetic algorithms • Evolutionary theory • Machine learning • Quantum dynamics • Distributed intelligence

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

Nicholas de Monchaux • Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Architecture
Robustness and Change in Urban Systems • Ecology of Urban Form • Form and Function in the Built Environment

Andrew Dobson, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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

Douglas H. Erwin, Professor, SFI • Senior Scientist and Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Paleobiology
Paleobiology • Evolutionary Innovation • Evolution of Development

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)

Walter Fontana, External Professor, Science Board, SFI • Professor, Harvard Medical School
Formal agent-based methods for modeling • Molecular signaling • Evolvability • Aging

Miguel Angel Fuentes, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Spatio-temporal structures in complex system.

Michelle Girvan

Jessica Green, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Oregon Eugene, Department of Biology
Theoretical Ecology

Virgil Griffith, Visiting Researcher, SFI • Graduate student, Caltech, Computation and Neural Systems
Metrics of complexity • Information theory based metrics of neural complexity

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.

Sanjay Jain, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Delhi, Department of Physics and Asrophysics
Structure and dynamics of complex networks, including chemical, biological, and socio-economic networks • Mathematical modeling of complex adaptive systems, evolutionary mechanisms • Models of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics • Nonlinear dynamics, random matrix models and quantum chaos • Quantum field theory, superstring theory and quantum gravity

Erica Jen, External Faculty, SFI

Jianguo Jia, Visitor, SFI • Senior Researcher, Tongji Development Insitute, Tongji University
System Dynamics Modeling for System Medicine • System Dynamic Modeling for Health Care System • Social, Economic and Ecology System Sunstainable Development

Kunihiko Kaneko, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Tokyo, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences
Physics • Theoretical Biology

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

Tom Kepler • Professor, Duke University, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Immunology, Statistical Science
Immunology

Mark Kirkpatrick • Professor, University of Texas, Section of Integrative Biology
Evolution of genomes • Behavioral evolution

Mimi Koehl, Science Board, SFI • Professor, University of California-Berkeley, Dept. of Integrative Biology
biomechanics and biofluiddynamics of the interactions of organisms with their physical environments and each other

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

Michael Lachmann • MPI for evolutionary anthropology, Genetics
Evolution of differentiation • Evolution and information • Origin of evolution

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

Seth Lloyd, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Pablo Marquet, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Ecology
Macroecology • Ecological systems

Lauren Ancel Meyers, External Professor, SFI • Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology
Evolutionary Biology • Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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

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

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

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

Mark Pagel, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Reading University, School of Biological Sciences
Evolutionary Theory • Language and Cultural Evolution • Emergence • Robustness EV • Evolvability

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

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

Peter Schuster, External Professor, SFI • University of Vienna
Theoretical Chemistry

Eli Sercarz, Science Board, SFI • Head, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, Division of Immune Regulation

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

Peter Stadler, External Professor, SFI • University of Leipzig, Dept. of Computer Science & Interdisciplinary Center of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, • Computational Biology, • Evolutionary Biology, • Evolution & Development, • Theoretical Chemistry, • RNA, • Origin of Life, • Combinatorial Optimization, • Robustness

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

Stefan Thurner, External Professor, SFI • Head of Complex Systems Research Group, Medical University of Vienna

Jessika Trancik, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI • Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Materials science • Technological innovation • Energy systems

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

Colleen Webb, External Professor, SFI • Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, Biology
Theoretical evolutionary ecology, species interactions, resilience, coevolution, quantitative genetics, genomics, nonlinear dynamics, spatial models

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