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Action Member Details

 

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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
(Deputy Chair)

 

(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
(Rapporteur)

 

(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
(Webmaster)

 

(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
(Group leader)

 

(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
(Group leader)

 

(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
(Group leader)

 

(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
(Group leader)

 

(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
(Group leader)

 

(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.