David Ackley, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of New Mexico, Computer Science
Artificial life models and real artificial life • Robust computation and architectures • Software evolvability

Nihat Ay, External Professor, SFI • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Mathematics

Dave Bacon

Sander (F.A.) Bais, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Theoretical Physics
Topological order • Exactly soluble models in higher dimensions • Topological quantum computing • Quantum symmetries and dualities

Carl Bergstrom, External Professor, SFI • Associate Professor, University of Washington, Dept. of Biology
Information flow in biological systems • Ecology and evolution of infectious disease • Economics of scientific publishing • Risk and evolution • Evolution of immune systems

Gergana Bounova • MIT
Evolution and dynamics of complex engineering systems

Elizabeth Bradley, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Colorado, Department of Computer Science
Nonlinear dynamics • Modeling and control of nonlinear systems • Artificial Intelligence

James P. Crutchfield, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis, Physics Department and Center for Computational Science and Engineering
Nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and pattern formation • Nonlinear physics: Solid-state physics, astrophysics, fluid mechanics, critical phenomena and phase transitions • Computational mechanics • Physics of complexity • Statistical inference for nonlinear processes • Genetic algorithms • Evolutionary theory • Machine learning • Quantum dynamics • Distributed intelligence

Raissa D'Souza, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of California, Davis, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Phase transitions, self-organization, and the structure, function and growth of networks.

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)

Walter Fontana, External Professor, Science Board, SFI • Professor, Harvard Medical School
Signaling • Evolvability • Aging

Stephanie Forrest, External Professor, Science Board, SFI • Professor and Dept. Chair, University of New Mexico, Computer Science
Immune System Modeling • Computer Immune Systems • Cancer as an Evolutionary System • Negative Representations of Information

Michael Gastner, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Statistical Physics

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

Herbert Gintis, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Central European University, Economics
Dynamics of General Equilibrium • Unification of the Behavioral Sciences • Modeling Cooperation in Humans • Evolutionary Game Theory • Behavioral Economics

David Goldbaum • University of Technology Sydney, School of Finance and Economics
Heterogeneous agent models in finance and economics • Learning and adaptation by economic agents

Jose Manuel Gomez Soto, International Fellow, SFI • Researcher, La Salle University, Complex System Laboratory
Cellular Automata • Dynamical Systems • Agents Based Model

Bailin Hao, External Professor, SFI • Fudan University
Theoretical physics, computational physics, nonlinear science, theoretical life science

James Hartle, External Professor, SFI • Research Professor and Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Mechanics

Juris Hartmanis, Science Board, SFI • Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Cornell University
Understanding the computational complexity of chaotic systems • Study of the computational complexity of scientific theories

John H. Holland, Trustee, Science Board, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Computer Science/Engineering/Psychology

Ray Jackendoff, External Professor, SFI • Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Department of Philosophy
Natural language semantics/conceptual structure, Syntax and the syntax- semantics interface, The lexicon, Architecture of the language faculty and other cognitive capacities, Music cognition, Social cognition, Consciousness

Jüergen Jost, External Professor, SFI • Director, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Complex Systems and Cognitive Structures

Kunihiko Kaneko, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Tokyo, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences
Physics • Theoretical Biology

Tom Kepler • Professor, Duke University, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Immunology, Statistical Science
Immunology

David Krakauer, Professor, Science Steering Committee, SFI
Evolution • Signaling • Information and Computation • Microbes

Supriya Krishnamurthy, External Professor, SFI • Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Physics

Michael Lachmann • MPI for evolutionary anthropology, Genetics
Evolution of differentiation • Evolution and information • Origin of evolution

Joshua Ladau, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Statistical Ecology • Community Dynamics

Seth Lloyd, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Stephan Mertens, External Professor, SFI • Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Theoretische Physik
Statistical Mechanics • Computational Complexity • Parallel Computing

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

Melanie Mitchell, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Portland State University, Computer Science
Intelligent systems, cognitive science, machine learning, evolutionary computation, and artificial life. • Understanding how natural systems perform computation, and how to use ideas from natural systems to develop new kinds of computational 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

Michel Morvan, External Professor, SFI • IXXI-Complex Systems Institute-LIP-Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Computer Science
Complex systems modelling methods • Robustness of complex systems • Modelling morphogenesis of plants and animals

John Lawrence (Larry) Nazareth • Professor Emeritus / Affiliate Professor, Washington State University / University of Washington, Mathematics / Applied Mathematics
Algorithmic Science & Engineering

Mark Newman, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Physics and Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Physics and Complex Systems

Eckehard Olbrich • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Information theory for cognitive and social systems • Nonlinear time series analysis • Analysis and modeling of human sleep EEG

Dan Rockmore, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Dartmouth College, Computer Science
Representation Theory, Fast Transforms, Group Theoretic Transforms,Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analysis and other Cool(?) Things

Thimo Rohlf, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Dynamical Systems and Networks

Yuzuru Sato • Hokkaido University, RIES / Depertment of Mathematics
Spatio-temporal intermittency • Noisy dynamics • Complexity and Entropy of chaos • Dynamics of memory and learning • Adaptive dynamics

Peter Schuster, External Professor, SFI • University of Vienna
Theoretical Chemistry

Cosma Shalizi, External Professor, SFI • Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics Department
Quantitative measures of complexity and self-organization • Nonlinear prediction theory • Statistical inference and machine learning for stochastic processes • Hidden Markov models and stochastic automata • Cellular automata and random fields on networks • Structure and information flow in complex networks • Statistics of heavy-tailed distributions • Neural coding and computation • Political networks • Foundations of statistics and statistical mechanics

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

Ricard Solé, External Professor, SFI • Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Systems, Synthetic and Network Biology

Charles Stevens, External Professor, Science Board, Science Steering Committee, SFI • The Salk Institute, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Neurobiology

Vladimir Teif
Statistical-Mechanical Description of Gene Regulation ans Signal Transduction

Stefan Thurner, External Professor, SFI • Head of Complex Systems Research Group, Medical University of Vienna

Joseph Traub, External Professor, SFI • Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, Computer Science

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

Hyejin Youn • KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Physics
Statistical physics • Complex network