*Jason Bates
*Brian Beckage
*Arne Bomblies
*Josh Bongard
*Adrian Del Maestro
*Christopher Danforth
*Peter Dodds
*Mary Dunlop
*Maggie Eppstein
*Hugh Garavan
Bill Gibson
Charles Goodnight
*Paul Hines
*Stuart Kauffman
*Chris Koliba
*David Novak
*Donna Rizzo
Brian Tivnan
*Austin Troy
*Asim Zia
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Bill Gibson
Charles Goodnight
Brian Tivnan
Jason Bates
Jason Bates studies quantitative physiological function, focusing on the mechanical properties of the lungs and the electrical properties of the heart. He is particularly interested in how the components of these organs collectively conspire to produce emergent function at the level of the whole organ, and how this helps us understand diseases such as asthma and atrial fibrillation.
Brian Beckage
Brian Beckage's research focuses on understanding the dynamics of wildland fire and ecological transitions between forest, savanna, and grassland states. Brian is also interested in the linkages

between ecological, social, and climate systems, and the resultant dynamics of this coupled human and natural system.
Arne Bomblies
Arne Bomblies’ work broadly seeks to understand the impacts of climate and land use change on human and natural coupled systems. His research focuses on system resilience to environmental perturbations, and has included studies of malaria transmission dynamics and watershed behavior under future climatic uncertainty and nonstationarity.
Josh Bongard
Co-Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center
Josh Bongard's work focuses on understanding the general nature of cognition, regardless of whether it is found in humans, animals or robots. His approach focuses on the role that morphology and evolution plays in cognition, and has taken him into the fields of biology, psychology, engineering and computer science.
Chris Danforth
Co-Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center
Chris Danforth is an applied mathematician interested in modeling a variety of physical, biological, and social phenomenon. He has applied principles of chaos theory to improve weather forecasts as a member of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network , and developed a real-time remote sensor of global happiness using messages from Twitter. He also helps run UVM's reading group on complexity .
Adrian Del Maestro
Adrian Del Maestro's research is concerned with the search for cooperative emergent phenomena in strongly interacting quantum many-body condensed matter systems. Using a combination of large scale high performance computational and field theory methods, he tries to understand the interplay between topology, fluctuations and disorder in superfluids and superconductors.
Peter Dodds
Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center
Peter Dodds is a scientist in the Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics working on large-scale, system-level problems in many fields including sociology, geomorphology, biology, and ecology. For more information, please see his website .

Mary Dunlop
Mary Dunlop's research explores how biological systems use feedback. She works with single-celled microorganisms, engineering novel feedback regulation or studying the function of naturally occurring feedback loops. Her work integrates information across multiple spatial and temporal scales and has applications to energy and medicine.
Maggie Eppstein
Maggie Eppstein's research focuses on the development and use of bio-inspired computing methodologies, including evolutionary computation, agent-based models, complex networks, and artificial neural networks. She applies these methods to the modeling and analysis of a wide variety of complex biological, environmental, sociological, and/or technological systems.
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan's research applies functional brain imaging to understanding human cognition. He has a specific interest in the cognitive control functions performed by the prefrontal cortex and how their dysfunction might be relevant for clinical conditions such as addiction.
Bill Gibson
Bill Gibson studies economic processes using the methodology of complex systems. His recent work focuses on real-financial interactions in multi-agent economies and how aid to developing countries can be used and/or abused. The approach is to build up economies from the actions of individual agents and then explore how incentives might be changed to to improve the efficiency or fairness of the emergent structures.
Paul Hines
Paul Hines' work broadly focuses on finding ways to make electric energy more reliable, more affordable, with less environmental impact. Particular topics of interest include understanding the mechanisms by which small problems in the power grid become large blackouts (cascading failure), identifying and mitigating the stresses that could be caused by large amounts of electric vehicle charging, and quantifying the impact of high penetrations of wind and solar on electricity systems.
Stuart Kauffman
Building on his foundational work in complexity, Stuart Kauffman's recent work focuses on evidence for

a new physical "Poised Realm" hovering between quantum coherent and classical behaviors with implications for quantum biology, cell biology, and drug design. Kauffman is also looking at enablement in the evolution of the biosphere, where he is arguing that no physics-like law entails evolution; as well as application of the ideas of fitness landscapes to the clinical setting, looking at the efficacy of random clinical trials versus team learning on rugged landscapes.
Christopher Koliba
Chris Koliba is interested, broadly, in questions pertaining to the governance of democratic societies.
With active projects in the areas of watershed governance, transportation planning, smart gird implementation and food systems analysis, he works to operationalize CAS governance models to inform practical decision-making and advance our basic understandings of social complexity.
Dave Novak
Dave Novak’s work focuses on measuring and modeling various aspects of quality-of-service from a system-wide perspective. He is particularly interested in the need to better integrate spatial and temporal analyses into different modeling approaches.
Donna Rizzo
Donna Rizzo's research focuses on the development of new computational tools to improve the understanding of human-induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources and multi-scale environmental problems.
Brian Tivnan
Brian Tivnan, a UVM Complex Systems Center affiliate, is the Burlington site leader and chief engineer in the Modeling & Simulation Department for the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that manages federally funded research and development centers, partnering with government sponsors to support their crucial operational missions. His current research interests include the study of conflict and quantitative finance.
Austin Troy
Austin Troy's research focuses on the spatial analysis of land use in urban and urbanizing environments.
Using GIS, remote sensing, dynamic modeling, spatial statistics, and qualitative analysis as tools he addresses issues such as simulation of urban growth patterns, characterization of forest fragmentation, analysis of the environmental determinants of property values, and assessment of how crime locations relate to environmental factors.

Asim Zia
Asim Zia’s research focuses on the development of computational and complex-systems based approaches for informing the theory and practice of public policy analysis. He applies computational modeling approaches to evaluate complex policy and governance problems that span global climate change, energy, transportation, forest conservation, disaster management, watershed management and international development.