Affiliate researchers - International Scientific Advisory Council (ISAC)

W. Brian Arthur is an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and visiting researcher in the Intelligent Systems Lab at PARC (formerly Xerox Parc). He holds a PhD from Berkeley in operations research, and has other degrees in economics, engineering and mathematics.

Rob Axtell is a Professor of Computational Social Science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) and a founding member of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics there. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA).

Yaneer Bar-Yam is founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and co-founder of the World Health Network. A complexity physicist, he received his SB and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] in 1978 and 1984, respectively. He is the author of Dynamics of Complex Systems and Making Things Work, and has focused in recent years on developing responses to global crises.

Mike Batty CBE FRS FBA is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation and has published several books, such as Cities and Complexity (2005), The New Science of Cities (2013), Inventing Future Cities (2018), and The Computable City (2024) (all MIT Press).

Eric Beinhocker is the executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s INET@Oxford research program (Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford), a member of the Said Business School at Oxford, and a visiting professor of economics at Central European University.

Monica Cojocaru is an associate professor in the mathematics and statistics Department at the University of Guelph. She completed her BSc and MSc in mathematics at the University of Bucharest (Romania) and her PhD in mathematics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.

J. Doyne Farmer directs the programme on complexity economics, which is part of the INET@Oxford research institute. 

Carl Folke is science director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, one of the collaborating partners of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Ian Goldin took up his current position as director of the Oxford Martin School in September 2006. He has a BA (Hons) and a BSc from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and an MA and doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Matthew Hoffman is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He has a Bachelor of Science in environmental engineering from Michigan Technological University and a PhD in international relations from the George Washington University.

Jukka-Pekka Onnela is a professor at the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University.

Felix Reed-Tsochas is James Martin lecturer in complex systems at the Saïd Business School, director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Complexity, and a fellow of Green Templeton College.

Marten Scheffer currently leads the aquatic ecology and water quality management group at Wageningen University. He is interested in unraveling the mechanisms that determine the stability and resilience of complex systems.

Lee Smolin is a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics.

William Sutherland, MD, is a general practice physician presently working in emergency medicine, general practice psychotherapy, and functional medicine. He is the innovator of the complexity medicine paradigm and the author of the upcoming book on the subject, Grand Rounds: Healing Wisdom for a Complex World.

Leigh Tesfatsion Leigh Tesfatsion received the Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Minnesota, Mpls., in 1975, with a minor in mathematics. Currently she is Professor Emerita of Economics and Courtesy Research Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.

Jan Wouter Vasbinder (1945) is founding president of the Institute Para Limes, which he initiated in 2003. In August 2011 he became director of the complexity program at the Nanyang Technological University at Singapore.