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I grew up in San Diego, California and received a B.S. in Marine Biology and a Masterâs in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UC Santa Cruz. After falling in love with Alaska, I joined the Alaska Salmon Program at the University of Washington. I am broadly interested in the interfaces of ecology, evolution, fisheries management, and conservation. Currently, I am investigating patterns of movement in a fishing fleet and the sockeye salmon they fish in Bristol Bay, Alaska. +
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I have a Ph.D in Economics from Federal Urdu University, Islamabad, Pakistan. My research interest revolves around the Social Policy, Public finance, Trade policy and Macroeconomic framework etc. I have a vast experience of university level teaching and currently I am working as a Research Economist with Asian Development Bank, Pakistan. +
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I have a PhD in Ecological Economics from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (India). Teaching Research Methods; Quantitative Research Techniques; Operations Management and other Management courses to the Masters and Executive Professionals. I have around 10 years of experiences working with the academic, corporate, and non-profit organisations. +
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I have three main areas of behavioral and imaging research: the development of reading, attentional control systems, and the description of large-scale functional networks. The first focus is on the development of neural mechanisms underlying reading from ages 7 to adulthood with an emphasis on how visual regions in the brain change as people become fluent readers.
The second focus is on identifying and characterizing networks of regions for task organization and executive control. This work has lead to more than 10 publications describing the function of two relatively independent task control networks, one working to maintain task set or goals, and the other to task initiation and adjustment of ongoing performance. This work is primarily in typical and typically developing populations, but also in individuals with autism, Tourette Syndrome, and stroke. This line of studies encouraged us to employ graph theoretic techniques to model relationships in control systems, leading to the study of very large-scale network studies of dozens of brain regions. +
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I'm a Sociology student at Nebraska, currently working on my MA and later on, PhD. My research interests include neural correlates of social hierarchies, effects of concussion on likelihood to participate in risky or criminal behavior, and developing a model using fMRI scans and personality data to predict the rise and fall of dictatorships. +
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In the broadest terms, Jacopo is interested in understanding complex phenomena starting from simple rules and minimal assumptions. Jacopo's work focuses mainly on community ecology, where he aims to connect theoretical results with empirically observed patterns, in order to understand how the interplay between ecological interactions and stochasticity shapes biodiversity. He is also interested in genomics and cell physiology, where the emergence of scaling patterns across organisms and environmental conditions suggests the existence of underlying general principles. Finally, he studies the connection between stress response and recovery and aging, using C. elegans as a model organism. Jacopo enjoys both conceptual and theoretical problems, as well as data driven projects and collaborates with people with a diversity of backgrounds, from mathematics to experimental biology.
Jacopo earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the University of Milan and a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Padova. He comes to SFI from the department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago where he was a Postdoctoral Scholar. +
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Iza holds a PhD in complex systems simulation in archaeology from the University of Southampton, UK. Her core research interests focus on human evolution and the interaction between climate change, population dynamics and migration. In 2017 she joined Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the EPNet project concerned with modelling trade in Ancient Rome. +
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Jean-Lou Chameau Professor of CDS, Caltech. BS&MS EE, MIT (1977), PhD Math, UC Berkeley (1984)). Mathematical foundations for complex networks. Applications in bio, tech, med, eco, and neuro systems, and multiscale physics, integrating theory from control, computation, communication, optimization, statistics. Universal laws and architectures, robustness/efficiency and speed/accuracy tradeoffs, adaptability, evolvability, large scale systems with sparse, saturating, delayed, quantized, uncertain sensing, communications, computing, and actuation. Robust control with aerospace and industrial applications. Software such as Matlab Robust Control Toolbox and Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML). Paper prizes: IEEE Baker, Auto Control (2x), world top 10 papers in mathematics 1981-1993, AACC Schuck, ACM Sigcomm and “test of time”, and Best Writing on Mathematics 2010, and many conference best papers. Individual awards: IEEE Hickernell, Centennial, and Control Systems Field Award, AACC Eckman, and UC Berkeley Friedman, plus world records and championships in various sports. +
Jennifer Dunne is the Vice President for Science at the Santa Fe Institute, where she has been on the faculty since 2007. Jennifer received an A.B. from Harvard where she studied philosophy, an M.A. in Ecology and Systematic Biology from San Francisco State University, a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biological Informatics. As Vice President for Science, Jennifer manages all science-related activities at SFI, including the resident and external faculty, postdoctoral programs, seminar series, scientific visitors, working groups and workshops, and sponsored research.
Jennifer’s research interests are in analysis, modeling, and theory related to the organization, dynamics, and function of ecosystems. Much of this work focuses on ecological networks, in particular food webs, which specify the complex feeding interactions among species in a given habitat. Food webs provide a way to track and quantify the flows 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, Jennifer and her collaborators seek to identify fundamental patterns and principles of ecological network structure and dynamics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Such research provides a powerful framework for understanding the coexistence of species and the robustness, persistence, and stability of ecosystems, including how humans fit into and impact ancient, historic, and current ecosystems around the world.
Professor Dunne was named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2017. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, PLoS Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Ecology Letters, Ecology, and Ecological Monographs. Her work has been covered in media outlets including Scientific American, Wired, SmartPlanet, ScienceNow, and Nature News. She has served as an editor at the Journal of Complex Networks, Ecology Letters, and Oikos, is a series editor for the Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution, and is on the advisory board of the science and culture magazine Nautilus.
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Kailey Martinez is a graduate student at New Mexico State University focusing in Archaeology and Museum Studies. She received a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Management with a minor in Biology and a B.A. in Anthropology focused in Archaeology from NMSU. Her thesis is centered around a prehistoric Mimbres village in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. She will be analyzing zooarchaeological artifacts to understand the relationship that existed between the village inhabitants and their local ecology. +
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Many of the greatest challenges in science and engineeringrequire understanding how complex systems evolve, what makes them efficient,scalable and robust, and why they fail. Dr. Moses studies complex biologicaland information systems, the scaling properties of networks, and the generalrules governing the acquisition of energy and information in complex adaptivesystems. She uses computational and mathematical models to understand scalingproperties and search processes in distributed biological and computationalsystems including ant colonies, immune systems, and robot swarms. +
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Masters in Environmental Science from Tribhuvan University, currently associated with USAID's water project in Nepal as Sr. Project Officer. Recently published one scientific paper in Global Scientific Journal and three more published in different national scientific journals. Attended several national and international conferences in Nepal and in Malaysia. +
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Max is a public policy graduate student interested in the study of complex systems. After graduating with an undergraduate degree in philosophy, Max worked on Capitol Hill before joining Teach For America in 2010. He taught middle and high school astronomy, earth science, biology, and US history for five years in Denver and Harlem. Max is now pursuing a graduate education focused on the application of complexity science to policy. +
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My research focuses on the influence of human decision-making in the production of ecosystem services and pathways of social-ecological development. At the moment I'm using Norwegian northeast arctic cod fisheries as a case study, but I am broadly interested in building generalizable methods connecting interviews and surveys to agent based modeling. +
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Peter is a systems science PhD student at Portland State University where he currently studies general systems theory, complexity, and computer modeling and simulation. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Emergency Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh. His current interests include: resilience, transformation, and management of social-ecological systems, systems dynamics, reconstructability analysis, networks, ethics and value systems, community infrastructure development, and economics. +
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Rajan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. The overarching theme of his research is to understand the dynamic relationship between human and nature while revealing a host of conflicts and harmony as observed through the economic theories. Rajan is currently writing his dissertation on the effect of climate change and natural disaster on child health. +
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Susan M. Fitzpatrick is President of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri. The McDonnell Foundation is one of a limited number of international grant-makers supporting university-based research in biological, behavioral, and complex systems sciences through foundation-initiated programs. As President, Fitzpatrick serves as JSMF’s Chief Executive Officer.
Fitzpatrick received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Neurology from Cornell University Medical College (1984) and pursued post-doctoral training with in vivo NMR spectroscopic studies of brain metabolism/function in the Department of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics at Yale University.
Fitzpatrick served as the Associate Executive Director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis (1989-1992), a comprehensive basic science and applied science research center focused on restoring neurological function to persons with spinal cord injury. Her responsibilities included all public outreach and educational efforts and she served as the scientific liaison to the development, fundraising, and public relations staff. As Executive Director of the Brain Trauma Foundation (1992-1993), Fitzpatrick guided the Foundation through a re-organization. BTF is now a leader in advancing the acute care of patients with traumatic brain injury. Fitzpatrick joined the James S. McDonnell Foundation in 1993 as the Foundation’s first Program Officer. She was promoted to Program Director in 1997 and to Vice President in 2000. Fitzpatrick is an adjunct associate professor of Neuroscience and Occupational Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) and teaches neuroscience in both lectures and seminars. Fitzpatrick lectures and writes on issues concerning applications of neuroscience to clinical problems, the translation of cognitive science to educational settings, the role of private philanthropy in the support of scientific research, and on issues related to the public dissemination of and understanding of science.
Fitzpatrick serves on the boards of the Ontario Brain Institute and Research!America, is a member of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Science Council, and is a member of International Advisory Council of the Rotman Institute for Philosophy. Fitzpatrick is a past member of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, and is a Past-President and former Chair of the Board of the Association for Women in Science.
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Tasnim Rahman Fariha is currently teaching as a lecturer in the department of Economics at University of Dhaka. Besides, she is an enthusiastic researcher at Bureaue of Economic Research. Her competence in mathematics and econometric modeling is worth mentioning. She has several publications in renowned journals. Her research interest encompasses environment and population, health economics, social safety nets and so on. She aspires to persue her Ph.D in Economics preferably from North- America. +
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Trained as an applied microeconomist, my research ventures into an interdisciplinary territory of the intersection between natural and human systems. I am particularly interested in human responses to natural shocks in vulnerable communities and regions. My dissertation focuses on the determinants of household resilience against natural disaster shocks. +
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Usama Bilal is a postdoctoral fellow with the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University. His main research interest are the macrosocial determinants of chronic diseases. He works on the role that city/neighborhood dynamics have in generating disease, and the use of complexity methodologies to study the emergent properties of cities. He obtained his PhD in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He holds MPH and MD degrees from the Universidad de Alcala and Oviedo in Spain. +
