Summer School on Global Sustainability 2010-Faculty
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Faculty Team
J. Doyne Farmer, Director of the Global Sustainability School
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Doyne has broad interests in complex systems, and has done research in dynamical systems theory, time series analysis and theoretical biology. At present his main interest is in developing quantitative theories for social evolution, in particular for financial markets (which provide an accurate record of decision making in a complex environment) and the evolution of new technologies (whose performance through time provides a quantitative record of human achievement). He was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative trading firm that was recently sold to the United Bank of Switzerland, and was their chief scientist from 1991 - 1999. During the 1980’s he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was an Oppenheimer Fellow, founding the Complex Systems Group in the theoretical division.
Doug Arent, Faculty and Advisory Committee Member
Director of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Doug's primary research interests focus on Market aspects of renewable energy-related technologies.
John Schellnhuber, Faculty and Advisory Committee Member
Founding Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Since 1993, John has been Director of PIK and Professor for Theoretical Physics at Potsdam University. In 2007 he was Chief Government Advisor on Climate & Related Issues for the German G8-EU twin presidency. Currently he is a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Energy & Climate Change advising J.M. Barroso, President of the European Commission.
Jessika Trancik, Faculty and Advisory Committee Member
In January 2010, Jessika joined the Engineering Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trancik is an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Her work focuses on the development of a framework for studying the cost and carbon trajectories for energy technologies, and exploring a portfolio of possible near-zero carbon energy technology options for the coming decades. Jessika is a former Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
Lisa Curran, Faculty
Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor in Environmental Anthropology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. From 2001-2009, Lisa was Professor of Tropical Resources and John Musser Director of the Tropical Resources Institute at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 1996-2001, she held an interdisciplinary faculty position at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, Southeast Asian Studies and International Institute and Department of Biology at the University of Michigan. Currently, she is a MacArthur Fellow and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
Geoffrey West, Faculty
Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Geoffery is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. He served as SFI President from July 2005 through July 2009. His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena evolved into a highly productive collaboration on the origin of universal scaling laws that pervade biology from the molecular genomic scale up through mitochondria and cells to whole organisms and ecosystems. This led to the development of realistic quantitative models for the structural and functional design of organisms based on underlying universal principles.
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