About Us
We are a research group based at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna with international collaborators at the Santa Fe Institute, Bucerius Law School, Hong Kong University, amongst others.
We are a research group based at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna with international collaborators at the Santa Fe Institute, Bucerius Law School, Hong Kong University, amongst others.
A team with expertise in mathematical and computational modeling working on developing conceptual and analytical tools commensurate with the complexity of social and biological dynamics.
Eddie leads the Complex Collective.
He is a postdoctoral fellow at Complexity Science Hub Vienna since 2021 and formerly at the Santa Fe
Institute as a Program Postdoctoral Fellow. He is a recipient of the Austrian Science Fund ESPRIT postdoctoral fellowship and a former NSF Graduate
Research Fellow. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University and
received his AB in Physics from Princeton University. His CV is available here.
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Niraj joined the Complexity Science Hub Vienna as a Ph.D. candidate in August 2021. He has
a masters in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. His master’s thesis was in the
field of non-linear dynamics and complex networks.
For his masters’ thesis, Niraj performed network modeling using Kuramoto’s oscillators to study
collective behavior found in many real-world systems and also studied critical transitions between
synchronization and chimera (solitary) states found in dynamical networked systems. In order to
study the phase space of such systems, he used a unique technique that used machine learning to draw
boundaries between the different phases.
Niraj’s research interest lies at the intersection of statistical physics, collective behavior,
network science, computational modeling, data analysis and machine learning. Through his research,
he wishes to study the hidden universal laws of nature, using various tools and techniques that fall
under the umbrella of complexity science.
Currently at the Hub, Niraj is building a systematic framework to study armed conflicts and also
studying various emergent regularities that are found in armed conflicts.
Personal website.
Ernesto is currently a PhD candidate at Havana University. His current research is based on the study of epidemic processes in complex networks. In 2023 he will join the Complexity Science Hub Vienna as a postdoc researching in the field of complex systems and collective behavior with particular focus on evolutionary systems driven by innovation and obsolescence processes.
Victor is a predoctoral researcher at the Santa Fe institute. He is interested in the basic processes that give rise to interestingness in the universe. Such processes — such as diffusion, evolution, computation, aggregation — recur on the most diverse of substrates. Whether the substrate in question consists of molecules, organisms, ideas, institutions, or perhaps universes, what matters is often not what it is but how its parts relate to each other.
Victor is interested in using lenses from math and physics to understand these basic processes, including their conditions, their dynamics, and their interactions.
His research at the Santa Fe Institute has revolved around the processes of cooperation, cognition, and centralization. He graduated from Cornell summa cum laude with a degree in complex systems and math.
Simon D. Lindner is currently a PhD candidate at the Section for Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, where he is being supervised by Peter Klimek. Simon holds a BSc and MSc in physics from the University of Vienna. His Master's program provided him with a strong foundation in statistical physics, which motivated him to pursue his PhD research at the intersection of statistical physics, machine learning, and network science.
Simon's research is primarily focused on the intersection of statistical physics, machine learning, network science and impactful applications of data science.