Expertise
Modeling of complex social, economic, and biological systems.; Non-linear Dynamics; Economic policy; Public health policy; National Security Policy; Civil Violence.
Background
Current Positions
Member of External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute; External Research Professor, The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University; Member, Editorial Board, Complexity; Member, Editorial Board, Princeton University Press Studies in Complexity book series. Leads modeling and simulation efforts for the National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER) and the National Institutes of Health's Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS).
Past Positions
Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; International Relations Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation; International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee; Consultant, RAND Corporation.
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981;B.A., Amherst College, 1976