The external faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex systems science, and connect us to over 70 institutions around the globe.
This year, nine new researchers join SFI’s external faculty.
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Anthropology Evolutionary Wing
UC Davis
Research interests: demography, marriage, natural resource management
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
University Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Physics
Division of Composition Studies
University of North Texas
Research interests: music composition, computational physics, media arts
Read the announcement by the College of Science at the University of North Texas
Tina Eliassi-Rad
Core Faculty
Network Science Institute, and
Professor of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Research interests: data-mining, machine learning, network science
John Kaag
Professor and Chair of Philosophy
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Research interests: academic philosophy, biological origins of creativity, ethics of drone warfare, philosophy and memoir
Paul Krapivsky
Research Professor
Physics
Boston University
Research interests: dynamics of interacting many-particle systems
Mason Porter
Professor
Department of Mathematics
UCLA
Research interests: applied mathematics, including nonlinear science, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, nonlinear waves, billiard systems, quantum chaos, granular media, nonlinear optics, atomic physics, network science, social network analysis, mathematical biology, synchronization
Kathy Powers
Associate Professor
Political Science
UNM
Research interests: the nature of institutional authority, institutional change, and effects, design of international institutions and law
Devin White
R&D Manager
Autonomous Sensing and Perception group
Sandia National Laboratories
Research interests: machine intelligence, remote sensing, imaging science, photogrammetry, computer vision, geographic information science, computational social science, complex systems, high-performance computing, and quantitative approaches to understanding prehistory
Hyejin Youn
Associate Professor
Management & Organization Department
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
Research interests: the interplay between technological innovation and socio-economic systems