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Biography • Ahnert read physics at Cambridge and did a Ph.D. there at the Cavendish
Laboratory with Michael Payne. He did a postdoc at the Curie Institute and
later with Laszlo Barabasi at Northeastern University. He is currently a Royal
Society University Research Fellow in the Theory of Condensed Matter group in
the Cavendish and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Outside of research,
his interests include photography and cooking. Interests • Periodic signalling in biology; complex and biological networks; noncoding DNA;
time scales in microarray data; discrete dynamics; quantum information.
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Biography • Blundell read physics at Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, before sitting the
Physics Tripos Part III. He did his Ph.D. at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge with Eugene Terentjev,
where he divided his time between the Theory of Condensed Matter and Biological
and Soft Systems groups. He joined LIMS in 2010 and is a postdoc with funding from DARPA and DTRA. In 2012 he will start a postdoc in Stanford. Interests • Statistical mechanics of individual semi-flexible filaments; cross-linked
networks of semi-flexible filaments; theoretical models of evolvability;
percolation.
Biography • Caldarelli studied physics at the University of Rome “Sapienza” under L. Pietronero and A. Vespignani. He did a Ph.D. in statistical physics at
SISSA/ISAS in Trieste working on self-organised criticality with A. Maritan. He
was a postdoc at Manchester with A. McKane and in Cambridge with R. Ball. He is
now associate professor of physics at “Sapienza” and the Italian CNR, and has been a visiting professor at ENS in Paris and the
University of Barcelona. He joined LIMS in
2009. Interests • Scale-free networks; fractal growth; self-organised criticality; statistical
mechanics; systems biology.
Biography • Coolen studied theoretical physics at the University of Utrecht, followed by a
postdoc there at the Biophysics Research Institute. He moved to England for a
postdoc with David Sherrington at Theoretical Physics in Oxford. He is
currently professor of applied mathematics at King’s College, London, where he created the disordered systems group. Coolen became
a Fellow of LIMS in 2010. Interests • Statistical mechanics of disordered many-particle systems; processes on complex
networks and random graphs; mathematical bio-medicine; minority games.
Biography • Csanyi read physics at St John’s College, Cambridge before sitting the Mathematical Tripos Part III. He left to do a Ph.D. in physics at MIT with Tomas Arias in the Department of
Physics and returned to Cambridge for a postdoc with Michael Payne at the
Cavendish Laboratory. He is currently a lecturer in the Engineering Department
at Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Interests • Multiscale materials simulation; probabilistic inference in quantum mechanics;
superconductivity in graphite; fullerenes and nanotubes; network science.
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Biography • Day is reading mathematics at King’s College, Cambridge. In 2010 and 2011 he did a summer undergraduate research project at LIMS, during which he drafted
a paper for publication. Interests • Exact dynamics of Boolean networks.
Biography • Epstein studied mathematics at MIT and the Courant Institute, where he won the
K. O. Friedrichs Prize. He did a postdoc at Princeton with William Thurston
before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since.
Epstein is currently Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics and graduate
chair of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, as well as Professor of
Radiology in the School of Medicine. He has been a visiting professor in Paris
and at the IHES.
Interests • Microlocal analysis and index theory; boundary value problems; NMR and medical
imaging; mathematical biology.
Biography • Farr read physics at Cambridge, where he won the Clerk Maxwell University Prize
for top physicist of his year, then sat the Mathematical Tripos Part III. He did his Ph.D. at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge with Robin Ball. He is
currently a research scientist at Unilever, dividing his time between the UK
and the Netherlands. Farr is currently co-supervising a research student at
Nottingham University. He joined LIMS in 2009. Interests • Mechanical, thermal and diffusive properties of materials; fractal principles
for designing light-weight structures; granular systems; geometrical packing.
Biography • Fink studied physics at Caltech, where he won the Fisher Prize for top physicist
of his year. He did a Ph.D. at Cambridge with Robin Ball at the Cavendish
Laboratory. He was a Junior Fellow at Caius College, Cambridge, and a postdoc
at Ecole Normale Superieure with Bernard Derrida. He is currently an associate
professor in the French CNRS (Curie Institute). Outside of research, Fink has
written two bestselling popular books and is interested in design, fashion and
simplicity.
Interests • Disrete dynamics; evolvability; boolean networks; self-assembly; percolation;
network theory; theoretical biology.
Biography • Gabrielli studied physics at the the Univeristy of Rome, "Sapienza", where he
also did his Ph.D. He did postdocs at both Laboratoire PMC, Ecole Polytechnique
in France and the INFM/ Enrico Fermi Research Center in Italy. He took up a
tenure track position at INFM and the Institute of Complex Systemcs at Italian
National Research Council, where he is now an associate professor. Interests • Stochastic processes and network theory; statistical physics of gravitational
and long range interacting systems; NMRI of organic and inhorganic
heterogeneous materials.
Biography • Gallagher studied physics at Harvard before moving to New York where he was a
management consultant in finance and to Milan where he was a software designer.
He did a Ph.D. at St Peter’s College, Oxford with Alan Grafen in mathematical biology and joined LIMS in 2009 to do a postdoc with funding from DARPA. Outside of research, Gallagher in
interested in theatre, particularly improvisation, and technology and design. Interests • Evolution of complexity in organisms; genotype-phenotype maps; percolation;
genospace algebra; evolution of cooperation and multi-level selection.
Biography • After a Ph.D. at Berkley, Harer held positions at Columbia, Maryland and
Michigan. He is currently professor of mathematics and computer science at
Duke, where he served as Chair of the Mathematics Department, Vice-Provost, and
Director of the Center for Computational Science. He has been involved in a
number of DARPA programs and is a consultant for the Department of Defense.
Outside of research, Harer likes gardening, drums, cooking and home
construction. Interests • Computational and low-dimensional topology; systems biology; network dynamics;
self-healing networks; geometric image analysis.
Biography • Pickard studied physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge and has worked in
Cambridge (England), National Center for High Performance Computing (Taiwan)
and the Universities of Kiel (Germany), Paris 6/7 (France), and St Andrews
(Scotland). He is currently an ESPRC Leadership Fellow, and has recently taken
up a chair in physics at UCL. Pickard helps the modern research scientist see
the universe at the atomic scale, through quantum mechanics. Interests • Electronic structure theory, solid state NMR, crystal structure prediction, high
and terapascal pressure physics, and CASTEP.
Biography • Pietronero studied physics in Rome and was a research scientist at Xerox Webster
and Brown Boveri. He then moved to Groningen, where he was professor in
condensed matter theory. Since 1987 he is professor of physics at the
University of Rome “Sapienza” and director of the Institute for Complex Systems, which he founded in 2004.
Luciano was chairman of StatPhys 23 and recently won the Fermi Prize, the
highest award of the Italian Physical Society. He became a Fellow of LIMS in
2010.
Interests • High-temperature superconductivity; statistical physics; fractal growth; complex
systems; biophysics; finance.
Biography • Santarelli studied at the Universities of L’Aquila and Milan. He has held teaching positions at La Sapienza and Teramo, and
is currently a research associate in the Italian National Research Council. He
is the Managing Director of the publishing house Zikkurat International
Business. In addition to his journal publications, he has written four books on
the philosophy of science and sociology. Interests • Complex networks; philosophy of science; epistemology; sociology of scientific
research.
Biography • Scala studied physics and computer science at the University of Napoli “Federico II,” working on percolation and Monte Carlo cluster algorithms with A. Coniglio. He
did a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics at Boston University working on
metastable critical points with H. E. Stanley. As a postdoc at Rome “La Sapienza,” he worked on energy landscapes and glassy systems with F. Sciortino and P.
Tartaglia. He is now research professor of physics in the Institute for Complex
Systems at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR).
Interests • Statistical mechanics; complex networks; computational physics.
Biography • Silsbee studied physics at Caltech, winning the Housner prize for research. As a Physics 11 student, and later with the support of two SURF fellowships, he
worked on modelling tidal heating on Enceladus, finding the spectrum of
electric dipole radiation from interstellar spinning dust, and approximate
methods to determine critical coupling in tree networks. Starting October 2011,
he is spending a year at LIMS doing research before starting his Ph.D. Silsbee also enjoys classical piano and mountaineering.
Interests • Astrophysics; galaxy formation; statistical mechanics; evolvability; boolean
networks.
Biography • Tombrello did his Ph.D. at Rice before taking positions at Yale and Caltech. He
is currently William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of physics at Caltech, and for the
last ten years served as Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and
Astronomy. Tombrello was Vice President and Director of Research at
Schlumberger and has advised the US government and corporations on a braod
range of scientific issues. He received a Ph.D.h.c. from Uppsala University. Research interests • Nuclear and ion beam physics; materials science; surface physics; planetary science; geochemistry; technology.
