L Ancel-Meyers

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

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

Ganesh Bagler, International Fellow, SFI • Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics Lab
Modelling of Biological Systems • Study of Protein Structure and Function • Modelling of Protein Contact Networks • Modelling Neuronal (Brain) Networks

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

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

Caroline Buckee, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI • Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Zoology
Evolution and maintenance of pathogen diversity • Population structure and evolutionary dynamics of the malaria parasite

Lauren Buckley, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI • Stanford University, Biological Sciences
Dynamic models of species distributions in changing environments • Energetic and ecological constraints on density and diversity

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

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

Vincent Danos, External Faculty, SFI • Professor in Computational Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh

Rob de Boer, External Professor, SFI • Utrecht University, Theoretical Biology
Theoretical Biology

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

Sander van Doorn, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology

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

Santiago Elena, External Professor, SFI • CSIC Research Professor, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Evolutionary Virology Group
Evolutionary biology of microbes

Brian Enquist, External Professor, SFI • Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Scaling in biology • Evolution of form, function, and diversity • Macroecology and Global Ecology • 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

Nina Fedoroff, External Professor, Science Steering Committee, SFI • Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State, U. S. Department of State
Plants • Genetics • Molecular Biology

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

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

Deborah M. Gordon, Science Board, SFI • Professor, Stanford University, Biological Sciences
Colony organization of ant colonies • Ecology of invasive species • Evolution of social behavior

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.

Chen Hou, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI • Santa Fe Institute
Biophysics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joshua Ladau, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Statistical Ecology • Community Dynamics

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

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

Harold Morowitz, Science Board Chair Emeritus, SFI • Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy, George Mason University, Krasnow Institute

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

Avidan Neumann, External Professor, SFI • Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences
Viral Dynamics and Evolution and Host-virus intreractions • Immune Dynamics and auto-immune disease • Mathematical Biology

Eckehard Olbrich • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Information theory for cognitive and social systems • Nonlinear time series analysis • Analysis and modeling of human sleep EEG

Norman Packard, External Professor, SFI • CEO, ProtoLife s.r.l.
Physics

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

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

Mercedes Pascual, External Professor, SFI • Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Center for the Study of Complex
Theoretical Ecology • Disease Ecology

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

Steen Rasmussen, External Professor, SFI • Team Leader, Self-Organizing Systems (SOS), EES-6, MS-D462, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Self-Organizing Systems: • Protocells and self-replicating materials • Energy systems, planetary management, and social impact • Collective intelligence and decision support

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

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

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

Somdatta Sinha • Scientist 'G', Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Mathematical & Computational Biology
Evolution of biochemical pathways • Collective behaviour in living systems • Host-pathogen interaction

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

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

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

Vladimir Teif
Quantitative Description of Gene Regulation ans Signal Transduction

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

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

Andreas Wagner, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Zurich, Dept. of Biochemistry
Evolution of Genetic and Metabolic Networks • Robustness and Evolutionary Innovation • Mobile DNA and its Evolution • Gene and Genome Evolution • Population Genetics

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

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

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