Massimo Mastrangeli

Massimo Mastrangeli is a post-doctoral researcher at the Distributed Intelligent Systems ans Algorithms Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, CH), investigating the modeling and enabling of self-organization in distributed systems of interacting agents. Massimo received the PhD degree in Materials Engineering from the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of the Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, BE). In his doctoral dissertation, realized in collaboration with Imec (Leuven, BE), he developed fluidic self-assembly techniques for the integration of complex heterogeneous microsystems. During this appointment, he was also visiting scholar at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA), the Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, NM, USA) and the Free University of Bruxelles (ULB, Bruxelles, BE). His interests and background also include complex systems, music, satire, science divulgation, philosophical enquiries.

ENAC IIE DISAL
GR A2 475 (Batiment GR)
Station 2
Lausanne
1015
Switzerland

Email: mastrangelim@gmail.com
Web: http://people.epfl.ch/massimo.mastrangeli

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Martin Schmidt

Martin Schmidt is a PhD candidate in Economics at University of Maryland, College park, researching on the impact of social context on observable behavior and on economic and public policy outcomes. His interests also include history of science and complexity theory.

2Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
United States

Email: martin.schmidt1@gmail.com

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Lucas Lacasa

Lucas Lacasa received his PhD in Physics from the Universidad Politcnica de Madrid, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), a joint research Institute of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. His interests span complexity science, including statistical physics, applied nonlinear dynamics, complex network theory, stochastic processes and agent-based modelling.

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ETSI Aeronauticos, UPM
Plaza Cardenal Cisneros 3
Madrid
28040
Spain

Email: lucas@dmae.upm.es
Web: http://lucaslacasa.blogspot.com/