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SFI welcomes 2026 External Professors

Santa Fe Institute Cowan Campus. (Image: Kate Joyce)
August 14, 2026

External Faculty are central to SFI’s identity as a world-class research institute. They enrich our networks of interactions, help us push the boundaries of complex-systems science, and connect us to more than 70 institutions around the globe.

This year, six new researchers joined SFI’s External Faculty: 

Henry Farrell
Johns Hopkins University
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Professor of International Affairs
Robert Goldstone
Indiana University Bloomington
Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Hahrie Han
Johns Hopkins University
SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science
Holly Moeller
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Washington Taylor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Professor of Physics
Elke Weber
Princeton University
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs




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