Santa Fe Institute

External Faculty

These Fellows are in residence from one to three years working on collaborative as well as individual projects.

David Ackley

External Professor
Professor, University of New Mexico, Computer Science

Lauren Ancel-Meyers

External Professor
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology

W. Brian Arthur

External Professor
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Intelligent Systems Lab

Robert Axtell

External Professor
Professor and Chair, George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Computational Social Science

Nihat Ay

External Professor
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Sander (F.A.) Bais

External Professor
Professor, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Theoretical Physics

Carl Bergstrom

External Professor
Associate Professor, University of Washington, Dept. of Biology

Lawrence Blume

External Professor
Professor, Economics and Information Science, Cornell University, Economics

Robert Boyd

External Professor
Professor, University of California-Los Angeles, Department of Anthropology

Elizabeth Bradley

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, University of Colorado, Department of Computer Science

Jim Brown

External Professor, Science Steering Committee
Distinguished Professor, University of New Mexico, Biology

Timothy G. Buchman, Ph.D., M.D., FACS, FCCM

External Professor
Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Surgery / General Surgery - Acute and Critical Care Surgery

Carlos Castillo-Chavez

External Professor
Professor, Arizona State University, Mathematics and Statistics

Morten Christiansen

External Professor
Co-Director of Cognitive Science @ Cornell, Cornell University, Department of Psychology

James P. Crutchfield

External Professor
Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, Complexity Sciences Center and Physics Department

Lisa Curran

External Professor
Professor, Stanford University, Anthropology

Raissa D'Souza

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, University of California, Davis, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Vincent Danos

External Faculty
Professor in Computational Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh

Rob de Boer

External Professor
Utrecht University, Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics

Andrew Dobson

External Professor
Professor, Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Santiago F. Elena

External Professor
CSIC Research Professor, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, Evolutionary Systems Virology Group

Brian Enquist

External Professor
Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Joshua M. Epstein

External Professor
Director, Center on Social & Economic Dynamics; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

Nina Fedoroff

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State, U. S. Department of State

Marcus W. Feldman

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Wohlford Professor, Stanford University, Biological Sciences

Duncan Foley

External Professor
Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, Economics

Walter Fontana

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, Harvard Medical School

Stephanie Forrest

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor and Dept. Chair, University of New Mexico, Computer Science

John Geanakoplos

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
James Tobin Professor of Economics, Yale University, Economics

Anirvan Ghosh

Stephen Kuffler Professor, University of California, San Diego, Neurobiology

Herbert Gintis

External Professor
Professor, Central European University, Economics

Jessica Green

External Professor
Professor, University of Oregon Eugene, Department of Biology

George Gumerman

External Professor
School for Advanced Research, Archeology and Anthropology

Peter Hammerstein

External Professor
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

Bailin Hao

External Professor
Fudan University

James Hartle

External Professor
Research Professor and Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dirk Helbing

External Professor
Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Chair of Sociology

John H. Holland

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Computer Science/Engineering/Psychology

Alfred Hübler

External Professor
Director, Center for Complex Systems Research and Professor, Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana

Ray Jackendoff

External Professor
Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Department of Philosophy

Matthew Jackson

External Professor
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Economics

Sanjay Jain

External Professor
Professor, University of Delhi, Department of Physics and Asrophysics

Erica Jen

External Faculty

Jüergen Jost

External Professor
Director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Kunihiko Kaneko

External Professor
Professor, University of Tokyo, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences

Hillard Kaplan

External Professor
Professor, University of New Mexico, Anthropology

Stuart Kauffman

External Faculty
Director, University of Calgary, Institute for Biocomplexity & Informatics

Tim Kohler

External Professor
Regents Professor, Washington State University, Anthropology

Supriya Krishnamurthy

External Professor
Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Physics

Steve Lansing

Professor
Professor, University of Arizona, Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Seth Lloyd

External Professor
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Jonathan Machta

External Professor
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Physics

Pablo Marquet

External Professor
Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Ecology

Stephan Mertens

External Professor
Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Theoretische Physik

Melanie Mitchell

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, Portland State University, Computer Science

Michel Morvan

External Professor
IXXI-Complex Systems Institute-LIP-Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Computer Science

Avidan Neumann

External Professor
Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences

Mark Newman

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan, Physics and Complex Systems

Kazuo Nishimura

External Professor
Director, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research

Maya Paczuski

External Professor
Professor of Physics and Head of Complexity Science Group, University of Calgary

Scott Page

External Professor
Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Comple, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mark Pagel

External Professor
Professor, Reading University, School of Biological Sciences

Mercedes Pascual

External Professor
Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

John Pepper

External Professor
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Alan Perelson

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

Juan Perez-Mercader

External Professor
Director, Centro de Astrobiologia

Walter (Woody) Powell

External Professor
Professor, Stanford University, School of Education

Steen Rasmussen

External Professor
Professor, Research Director and Center Leader, University of Southern Denmark, Self Organizing Systems

Sidney Redner

External Professor
Professor, Boston University, Physics

Dan Rockmore

External Professor
Professor, Dartmouth College, Computer Science

John Rundle

External Professor
Professor and Director, California Inst. for Hazard Research, University of California, Davis

Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Daniel Schrag

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Director, Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography

Peter Schuster

External Professor
University of Vienna

Rajiv Sethi

External Professor
Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University, Dept. of Economics

Cosma Shalizi

External Professor
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics Department

David Sherrington

External Professor
University of Oxford, Condensed Matter Theory Group; The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Martin Shubik

External Professor
Seymour Knox Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics, Yale University, Economics

Ricard Solé

External Professor
ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Life Sciences

Peter Stadler

External Professor
University of Leipzig, Dept. of Computer Science & Interdisciplinary Center of Bioinformatics

Charles Stevens

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory

Steven Strogatz

External Professor
Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Theoretical and Applied Mathematics

Alan Swedlund

External Professor
Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Anthropology

Stefan Thurner

External Professor
Head of Complex Systems Research Group, Medical University of Vienna

Joseph Traub

External Professor
Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, Computer Science

Constantino Tsallis

External Professor
Brazilian Center for Physics Research and National Institute of Science and Tech

Sander van der Leeuw

External Professor
Professor of Archaeology, Director, Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Andreas Wagner

External Professor
Professor, University of Zurich, Dept. of Biochemistry

Duncan Watts

External Professor
Professor, Columbia University, Sociology

Colleen Webb

External Professor
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, Biology

Ken Weiss

External Professor
Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Genetics, Penn State University

Douglas R. White

External Professor
Professor, Anthropology, University of California-Irvine, Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Science

William (Woody) Woodruff

External Professor
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Henry T. Wright

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology

Peyton Young

External Professor
Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics

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