Action Member Details
For information on the Action members click here - Member Details
| Member | Institute | Research Interests | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Richmond (Chair) |
UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Ireland |
Application of statistical physics to financial and social issues.
|
![]() |
|
Janusz Holyst
(WG1-5) |
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland |
Nonlinear dynamics and statistical physics, theory and applications; Evolving networks; Methods of physics in economy & sociology; Social networks evolution with a strong leader, percolation models of economical phenomena.
|
|
|
Panos Argyrakis
(WG3,5) |
Department of Physics University of Thessaloniki GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece |
Networks structure & dynamics; Growth, scaling & fluctuations. Immunization on networks, Tolerance and robustness. Social networks. Language evolution, population dynamics, learning languages through interactions. Mathematical modeling and simulation of neural networks. Dynamics of signal transfer in biological brains, applications to learning and memory.
|
|
|
Bosiljka Tadic
(WG3) |
Department of Theoretical Physics, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana , Slovenia |
Complex networks. Numerical modeling of complex dynamical systems using network theory and statistical physics. Theoretical and data- driven network models, and algorithms for network analysis and visualization. Numerical simulations of processes and emergent dynamical phenomena on networks. | |
|
Andrea Scharnhorst
(WG1, 3,4) |
The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences - VKS Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Creating knowledge transfers between natural sciences (physics) and social sciences, humanities and arts; Simulating innovation - innovation as simulation (VKS simulation collaboratory) ; Models of self-organisation for complex systems; Bibliometric analysis and evaluation; "Landscape theories of social change"- ( G_O_E_THE ); Evolution of research technologies, in particular Web technologies; Web based science, technology and innovation indicators ;
|
|
|
Christophe Deissenberg
(WG2) |
Department of Economics and GREQAM, UMR CNRS, Universite de la Mediterranee, Aix-Marseille, France |
Dynamic modelling, games, and optimisation. Uncertain systems. Agent-based modelling. Applications among others to macro-economic policy-making and to environmental economics.
|
|
|
Stefan Thurner
(WG3) |
Complex Systems Research Group Medizinische Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria |
Transport & Anomalous Diffusion on Networks; Reconstruction of Networks from Data; Emerging Networks, Thermodynamics & Models; Empirical Networks of Inter-Bank Relations; Networks, Globalization & Regulation in Financial Markets; Hedge Fund - Bank Interactions; Non-linear Price Formation Models;
|
|
|
Anxo Sanchez
(WG4) |
Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos, Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, |
- Evolutionary game theory
- Evolutionary dynamics - Agent-based models of complex socioeconomic systems - Trans-disciplinary applications of statistical physics |
|
|
Vittorio Rosato
(WG5) |
ENEA, Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment, Roma, Italy |
My research topics span from bioinformatics and Systems Biology to the study of technological infrastructures under the stanpoint of Complex Systemms theory.
|

