Matteo Smerlak studies the emergence of pattern in complex dynamical systems, most recently within the context of Darwinian evolution. His recent work has also explored the dynamics of economic inequalities, the quantification of resilience and the origin of scaling in biological growth. Given his background in gravitational physics, Matteo would also like to know what dark matter stands for or what happens inside black holes.
After a PhD at Université de la Méditerranée in France and a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, Matteo is currently affiliated with Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
