Aaron Clauset, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
Complex networks • Statistical inference • Mechanisms and models

Murray Cox • University of Arizona and the Santa Fe Institute
Complex Demographic Systems • Genomic Inference

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

Lisa Curran, External Professor, SFI • Professor, Yale University, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Topics: Ecology, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Global Change Science and Policy, Social Ecology of Conservation and Development • • Expertise: Biodiversity and Habitat; Carbon Sequestration; Climate Change (Global Warming); Deforestation (Logging); Forestry; Land Use; National Parks; Parks and Protected Areas; Public Lands; Sustainable Forestry; Tropical Forest Ecosystems

Nicholas de Monchaux • Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Architecture
Robustness and Change in Urban Systems • Ecology of Urban Form • Form and Function in the Built Environment

Jennifer A. Dunne, Research Fellow, SFI • Co-Director, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
Ecology • Networks • Paleobiology • Coupled Human-Natural Systems • Ecoinformatics

Nathan Eagle, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI • Research Scientist, MIT
Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems

Joshua M. Epstein, External Professor, SFI • Director, Center on Social & Economic Dynamics; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
Modeling of complex social, economic, and biological systems using agent-based computational models and nonlinear dynamical systems, with applications to economics, public health, and international security.

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

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

Michelle Girvan

William (Bill) G. Glenney, IV, Business Network Fellow, SFI • CNO Strategic Studies Group, U.S. Navy
Groupcraft and National Security • • Statement of Purpose – Research and generate principles related to the behavior of groups in support of the development of “groupcraft” as part of the U.S. national security strategy. • • Discussion – The U.S. National Security Strategy over the next 20 years will be based on the need to maintain the viability of the nation-state of the United States, protect its territory and citizens, promote stability, maintain peace and deter aggression, leverage technology, and enable economic growth and freedom. Simultaneously, the U.S. government must foster the growth of the power of the individual and responsible affinity groups, people naturally joined over a common idea or vision that is not necessarily related to a nation-state. The U.S. National Security Strategy for 2025 must ensure that the United States can act in an environment and succeed in a competition in statecraft and in groupcraft. • • Relationship to existing SFI research themes – the proposed research has direct relationships to the following SFI research: • - emergent behavior, • - resilience, • - communities, • - agents, • - flocking, • - human cooperation and communication, • - collaboration networks, • - community structure in social networks, • - clustering and preferential attachment, • - localized ethnic conflict and genocide, • - adaptive governance, • - loyalty, • - social capital and community governance, and • - chaos and politics.

Marco Janssen • Arizona State University
Institutional innovation in commons dilemmas • Robustness of social-ecological systems • Transitions of societies in long duree

Erica Jen, External Faculty, SFI

Willemien Kets, Postdoctoral fellow, SFI • Extramural fellow, CentER, Tilburg University
Game Theory • Networks • Learning • Financial markets

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

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

Steve Lansing, Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Arizona, Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Complexity and Social Theory • Ecological anthropology • Robustness of Coupled Human-Natural Systems • Social structure, language and genetics • Ethnology of Indonesia

Simon A. Levin, Co-Chair of Science Board, Ex-Officio Trustee, SFI • Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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

Martina Morris, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Washington
Analysis of Social Structure • Population Dynamics

Andreea Munteanu, Visiting postdoc, SFI • Postdoctoral researcher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, GRIB - Complex Systems Lab
The role of stochasticity in biochemical systems • Feedbacks and their consequences in signaling cascades • Pattern formation in biological systems

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

John Padgett, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Chicago, Political Science

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

Peter Stadler, External Professor, SFI • University of Leipzig, Dept. of Computer Science & Interdisciplinary Center of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, • Computational Biology, • Evolutionary Biology, • Evolution & Development, • Theoretical Chemistry, • RNA, • Origin of Life, • Combinatorial Optimization, • Robustness

Laurent Tambayong • University of California, Irvine, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
Comparative Civilization • Complexity • Entrepreneurship • Historical Dynamics • Network Economics and strategic behavior • Network evolution and structure • Organizational Theory • Organizational Networks • Social Networks • Strategic Alliances • Urban Systems

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

Sander van der Leeuw, External Professor, SFI • Professor of Archaeology, Director, Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Longer-term evolution of socio-environmental systems • Innovation in urban contexts • Evolution of human cognition over the last 3 M years • Robustness, resilience and vulnerability of socio-environmental systems

Andreas Wagner, External Professor, SFI • Professor, University of Zurich, Dept. of Biochemistry
Evolution of Genetic and Metabolic Networks • Robustness and Evolutionary Innovation • Mobile DNA and its Evolution • Gene and Genome Evolution • Population Genetics