Although the Santa Fe Institute does not have tenured faculty, researchers are in residence either on a full- or part-time basis.

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

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

George Cowan, Lifetime Trustee Emeritus, Distinguished Fellow, Founding President, SFI
Early Childhood Development

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, Science Steering Committee (Chair), 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

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)

Murray Gell-Mann, Distinguished Fellow and Trustee, SFI
Scaling Phenomena • Measures of Simplicity and Complexity • Quantum Mechanics and the Quasi-Classical World

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

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

Cristopher Moore, Professor, SFI • University of New Mexico, Computer Science/Physics and Astronomy
Phase transitions in NP-complete problems • Quantum computation and quantum algorithms • Models and structural inference in social networks

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

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

Chris Wood, Vice President, SFI
Brain Imaging and Modeling • Computational Neuroscience • Biological Computation

Libby Wood, Professor, SFI • Yale University
Civil Wars • Political Violence • Negotiated Settlements • Collective Action