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Luis Bettencourt, GSSS Director

Luís M. A. Bettencourt is a Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute He was trained as a theoretical physicist and obtained his PhD from Imperial College (University of London, UK) in 1996, for research in statistical and high-energy physics models of the early Universe. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Los Alamos National Laboratory (Director’s Fellow and Slansky Fellow) and at MIT (Center for Theoretical Physics). He has worked extensively on cities and urbanization. His research emphasizes the creation of new interdisciplinary synthesis to describe cities in quantitative and predictive ways, informed by the growing availability of empirical data worldwide. His research interests also include the modeling of innovation and sustainability in developing human societies, the dynamics of infectious diseases and aspects of general information processing in complex systems. He is particularly interested in the interplay between information, structure and scale in setting the properties of diverse complex systems.

He is the author of over 80 scientific papers and several edited books. He regularly reviews papers for leading journals in Interdisciplinary Science, Physics, Urban Studies, Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. His research has been featured worldwide, including in The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, National Public Radio, the Economist, Harvard Business Review, Wired, the New Scientist, and SEED magazine.

Doug Arent, Deputy Associate Lab Director, Scientific Computing and Energy Analysis National Renewable Energy Laboratory (homepage)

Anni Beukes,Institute Resident Fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation - University of Chicago (homepage)

Christa Brelsford, Liane Russell Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Charlie Catlett, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Founding Director of the Urban Center for Computation and Data, UrbanCCD Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago

Danielle DuMerer, CIO & Commissioner of the Department of Innovation & Technology City of Chicago

Christopher Kennedy,Professor of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - University of Victoria

Audrey de Nazelle, Lecturer in Air Pollution Management - Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London

Dan O’Brien,Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Northeastern University

Emily Talen, Professor of Urbanism -University of Chicago

Philip Enquist, FAIA and Consulting Partner , Urban Design and Planning, SOM Architecture

Jagan Shah, Director of National Institute Of Urban Affairs(NIUA) - Government of India

Mani Vajipey, Co-Founder and CEO - Banyan Nation

Matt Petersen, President and CEO - Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)

Edward Mazria, Founder and CEO - Architecture 2030