Massimo Mastrangeli

Hello everyone,

I am a PhD student at [www.kuleuven.be Katholieke Universiteit Leuven], in Leuven, Belgium. I also belong to [www.imec.be Interuniversity MicroElectronic Center] (IMEC), located in the same town. My exploratory research aims at developing new techniques to help the manufacturing of microchip. This may be seen as a rather dull task, but things start to appear exciting one you introduce stochastic techniques and self-assembly to work that out! That's what I am presently doing. But that was only my n-th approach to the galaxy of complex systems.

I started getting interested in complexity by the end of my high-school years, and since then I started pursuing a personal educational path through self-organization, dynamical systems, pattern formation, critical phenomena, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence. I fed on books by Kosko, Kauffman, Gell-Mann, Deutsch, Penrose, Barabasi and more. I am still addicted.

I probably want (a subset of) this stuff to be the leading theme of my future career. So I think CSSS may be the right place to start this new phase of my life.

I also like playing and composing music, singing in choirs, running, talking with interesting people and [www.daysofmangoo.blogspot.com write satire].

I look forward to meeting you next June! Till then, you can keep in touch by writing me.

Massimo