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Robert May
Robert, Lord May of Oxford, holds a Professorship jointly at Oxford University and at Imperial College, London and is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Past roles include President of The Royal Society (2000-2005) and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology (1995-2000). He is also a member of the UK Government’s Climate Change Committee, a non-Executive Director of the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratories and until recently Chaired the Trustees of the Natural History Museum.
May was born in Sydney, educated at the University of Sydney, completing a degree on Chemical Engineering and Theoretical Physics in 1956, before receiving a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1959. He has since held positions in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University (1959-1961), in Theoretical Physics at the University of Sydney (1962-1972) and as Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology at Princeton University (1973-1988) before taking up his current Professorship. He was awarded a knighthood in 1996.
His interests centre around populations and ecosystems, with particular focus on how populations are structured and respond to change, and how the structure and function of ecosystems respond to disturbance. His work branches out from these central concepts to look at the structure of other networks, particular banking networks.
For more information, please visit his pages: http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/staff/academics/may_r.htm.
Selected publications:
- May, R.M., Sugihara, G. & Levin, S.A. (2008) Ecology for Bankers. Nature 451: 893-895.
- May, R.M. & McLean, A.R. (Eds) (2007) Theoretical Ecology: Principles and Applications. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- May, R.M. (1973) Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
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Luis A. Nunes Amaral
Professor Amaral, is a HHMI Early Career Scientist, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Associate Professor of Medicine within the Amaral Lab of the Complex Systems and Systems Biology centre at Northwestern University, Illinois.
Amaral is a native of Portugal, was educated at the Universidade de Lisboa, obtaining a degree in Physics in 1990, followed by a Masters in Physics in 1992. He was awarded a PhD in Physics from Boston University in 1996. He has since held positions at Forschunhszentrum Julich, Germany, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston University and Harvard Medical School. He has been a Professor at Northwestern since 2002. He has published over a hundred scientific peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals.
His interests lie in providing insight into the emergence, evolution and stability of complex social and biological systems. Recent work has focused on addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing human societies including mitigating the errors in healthcare settings, characterising the conditions fostering innovation and creativity, and analysing growth limits that are imposed by sustainability. More recently he has proposed the development of cartographic methods for the representation of biological networks.
For more information, please visit his pages: http://amaral.northwestern.edu/people/amaral/.
Selected publications:
- Guimera, R. & Amaral, L.A.N (2005) Functional Cartography of Complex Metabolic Networks. Nature 433: 895-900.
- Amaral, L.A.N., Scala, A., Barthelemy, M. & Stanley, H.E. (2000) Classes of Small-World Networks Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.U.S.A. 97: 11149-11152.
- Stanley, M.H.R., Amaral, L.A.N., Buldyrev, S.V., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Salinger, M.A. & Stanley, H.E. (1996) Scaling behaviour in the growth of companies. Nature 379: 804-806
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