Yuri Yegorov

Born in 1960, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Yuri studied physics and mathematics at Leningrad State University (1977-83), where he also defended his first Ph.D. thesis (mathematical physics) in 1986. The topic of his research was related to propagation of nonlinear waves in fluids, with an application to tsunami waves. Yuri then worked in the Department of Applied Mathematics and mathematical modelling at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute until 1992.

After that he shifted his interests to economics, earning an M.A. in Economics from Central European University (Prague, 1993) and later studying in the Ph.D. program in economics in University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where he defended his second Ph.D. thesis (Economics) in 1999. He then taught economics in CEU, Budapest, (mathematics for economists, microeconomics, urban and regional economics) where he developed a special course concerning the application of non-traditional mathematical methods to economics.

Currently he is a research visitor in the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. His research interests in economics include theoretical models of spatial economic structures, migration theory, and industrial organization. Yuri's current research interests are interdisciplinary, with a focus on the application of mathematical methods from physics to the social sciences and using the ideas of self-organization of complex systems from synergetics. He has participated in more than 30 international economic conferences, and has publications in economics, applied mathematics and physics.

Published Research

Yegorov, Y. 2002. Social Dynamics and Emergence of Order: Building Theory of Field in Economics. [PDF] 161 KB

Yegorov, Y. 1997. Self-organization of Spatial Infrastructure. [PDF] 147 KB

The papers posted above are not SFI working papers, nor were they funded by SFI. They are solely the work of the author and coauthors, and do not necessarily reflect the research currently being undertaken on the SFI campus.