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Professor, Santa Fe Institute,
Luís M. A. Bettencourt is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a former Senior Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College, University of London, in 1996 for work on critical phenomena in the early Universe, and associated mathematical techniques of Statistical Physics, Field Theory and Non-linear Dynamics. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, as a Director’s Fellow in the Theoretical Division at LANL, and at the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT. In 2000 he was awarded the distinguished Slansky Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory for excellence in interdisciplinary research. Luís carries research in the structure and dynamics of complex systems, with an emphasis on dynamical problems in biology and society. Currently he works on real time epidemiological estimation, information processing in complex systems, innovation in science and technology and urban organization and dynamics. He ...
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Scientist IV, Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-8
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Ph.D., SFI Professor and TSM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-8. Dr. Bhattacharya attended the Indian Institute of Technology where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1982 and Master of Science degree in 1984. In 1989, Dr. Bhattacharya received his Doctorate of Philosophy in Physics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He then joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Brookhaven in Long Island as a postdoctoral fellow. After two years in Long Island, Dr. Bhattacharya moved to France to work at Service de Physique Theorique. In November 1992, he moved back to the United States to join the high-energy particle theory group at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as a postdoc and in 1999 he became a regular staff member at Los Alamos Labs. Dr. Bhattacharya joined SFI as part time resident faculty in 2005. Dr. Bhattachary research areas include: Physics of Complex ...
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
SAMUEL BOWLES, (PhD, Economics, Harvard University) is Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute where he heads the Behavioral Sciences Program. He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He taught economics at Harvard from 1965 to 1973 and at the University of Massachusetts, where he is now emeritus professor. His recent studies on cultural and genetic evolution have challenged the conventional economic assumption that people are motivated entirely by self-interest. These have included the mathematical modeling and agent-based computer simulations of the evolution of altruistic behaviors and behavioral experiments in 15 hunter-gather and other small-scale societies. Recent papers have also explored how organizations, communities and nations could be better governed in light of the fact that altruistic and ethical motives are common in most populations. Bowles' current research also includes theoretical and empirical studies of political hierarchy and wealth inequality and their evolution over the very ...
Lifetime Trustee Emeritus, Distinguished Fellow, Founding President, Santa Fe Institute
Dr. George A. Cowan is a research scientist, academician, businessman and philanthropist. In 1984 he founded the Santa Fe Institute, a private institution that fosters interdisciplinary research among scientists from the physical, biological, computational and social sciences. He was the institute’s president from 1984 to 1991 and continues to serve on its board.
Cowan received a bachelor of science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1941. He did some graduate studies at Princeton, where he worked under future Nobel Prize Laureate Eugene Wigner, whose investigation of uranium confirmed the feasibility of the Fermi pile. Cowan continued nuclear research with the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Oak Ridge, Columbia University, and Los Alamos, then came to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1946. He earned a Ph.D. from the Mellon College of Science in 1950.
From 1949 to 1988 he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Co-Director, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
Jennifer received a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley in 2000, held a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics from 2000-2002, co-founded the Pacific Ecoinformatics & Computational Ecology Lab in 2004, and joined the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute in 2007.
My research interests are in analysis, modeling, and theory related to the organization, dynamics, and function of complex species interactions. Much of this work focuses on trophic interactions, which provide the basic architecture for the flow of energy and resources in ecosystems and thus play a central role in ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Drawing on cross-system analysis and computational modeling, my collaborators and I seek to identify fundamental patterns and principles of ecological network structure and dynamics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Such research provides a useful framework for understanding the coexistence of species and the robustness, persistence, and stability of ecosystems given endogenous ...
Chair of Faculty and Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Senior Scientist and Curator of Paleobiology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Paleobiology
Doug Erwin is a Senior Scientist and Curator of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C., as well as a part-time Resident Faculty member of SFI. His research involves a variety of aspects of the history of life and evolution, including ecological and developmental aspects of the origin of animals, the causes and consequences of the great end-Permian mass extinction some 252 million years ago, and the evolutionary history of really old snails. His latest project is a book on evolutionary innovation through the history of life, which will also explore the similarities and differences between economic and biological innovation. Various field projects have taken Doug repeatedly to China, South Africa and Namibia, and he has done geological field work in various other regions as well.
Erwin received an A.B. from Colgate University in 1980 and a Ph. D from ...
Trustee, Science Board
Distinguished Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Murray Gell-Mann is one of today’s most prominent scientists. He is
currently Distinguished Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also
Robert Andrews Millikan professor emeritus at the California Institute
of Technology, where he joined the faculty in 1955. In 1969, he
received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of
elementary particles. He is the author of The Quark and the Jaguar,
published in 1994, in which his ideas on simplicity and complexity are
presented to a general readership.
Among his contributions to physics was the "eightfold way"
scheme that brought order out of the chaos created by the discovery of
some 100 kinds of particles in collisions involving atomic
nuclei. Professor Gell-Mann subsequently found that all of those
particles, including the neutron and proton, are composed of
fundamental building blocks with very unusual properties that he named
“quarks.” That idea has since ...
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Assistant Professor, University of Palermo, Physics
Fabrizio Lillo is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and at the University of Palermo (Italy). He has been awarded of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics of the German Physical Society in 2007. His research is focused on the application of methods and tools of statistical physics to economic, financial, and biological systems. Recently he has been interested in the microstructure of financial markets and in the empirical study of economic and financial systems where the data allow to investigate the behavior of individual agents with the aim of building empirically based agent based models. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Palermo. He has been researcher of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (Italy) and post doctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He is author of more than 60 scientific papers.
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Professor, University of New Mexico, Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy
Cristopher Moore earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1991 at the age of 23. After positions as a postdoc and Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, he become a faculty member at the University of New Mexico, where he is now a Professor jointly in the Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy departments. He has written over 80 papers at the boundary between computer science in physics.
President, Santa Fe Institute
JEREMY ARAC SABLOFF (B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1964; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969) is the President of the Santa Fe Institute (2009 - ). Before coming to the Santa Fe Institute, he taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was Chair of the Department), the University of Pittsburgh (where he also was Chair), and the University of Pennsylvania (where he was the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1994-2004 [and Interim Director, 2006-2007] and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology).
He also was an Overseas Visiting Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. He is a past President of the Society for American Archaeology, a past Chair of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past Editor of American Antiquity. He served as Chair of the Smithsonian Science Commission and currently is ...
Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe Institute
Click HERE to download maps from my book, 'Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present'.
Paula Sabloff, Professor, holds a B.A. from Vassar and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University, with a year at the University of Pennsylvania in-between. A political anthropologist, her master’s and doctorate were conducted in Mexico. After several years in higher education administration (including Executive Director of the Governor’s Commission on Higher Education in New Mexico [1983], Academic Planner for the State of New Mexico [1984], Coordinator of Strategic Planning for UNM [1984-85] and Coordinator of Strategic Planning for the University of Pittsburgh), she returned to anthropological research, this time in Mongolia.
Her research focuses on Mongolians’ changing ideas of democracy and capitalism as they leave behind socialism and adapt to democracy and capitalism. In that pursuit, she has conducted fieldwork and interviews in ...
Science Board, Science Steering Committee
Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute
Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. West served as SFI President from July 2005 through July 2009. Prior to joining the Santa Fe Institute as a Distinguished Professor in 2003, he was the leader, and founder, of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he is one of only approximately ten Senior Fellows.
His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena evolved into a highly productive collaboration on the origin of universal scaling laws that pervade biology from the molecular genomic scale up through mitochondria and cells to whole organisms and ecosystems. This led to the development of realistic quantitative models for the structural and functional design of organisms based on underlying universal principles. This work, begun at the Institute, has received much attention in both ...
Vice President, Administration and Director, Business Network, Santa Fe Institute
Chris received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1973. Following a postdoctoral appointment at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington DC, he returned to Yale as a faculty member with joint appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. Chris left Yale in 1989 to lead the Biophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a position he held until becoming the Santa Fe Institute's Vice President in 2005. At Los Alamos, Chris' group was responsible for a wide range of biophysical and physical research, including protein crystallography, quantum information, and human brain imaging. During 2000-2001, Chris served as interim director of the National Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging, a collaboration involving Harvard / Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Minnesota, and a number of academic and research institutions in New Mexico devoted to the development and application of advanced functional imaging techniques to mental disorders. Chris' research ...
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