Elsa Arcaute is a physicist with a masters in Mathematics (part III of the Mathematical Tripos) and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is now professor at UCL and her research focuses on urban systems.

 

 

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (born 1962) is a French physicist. He is co-founder and Chairman of Capital Fund Management (CFM), adjunct professor at École Normale Supérieure and co-director of the CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance at Imperial College London. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and held the Bettencourt Innovation Chair at Collège de France in 2020.

 

 

Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes is Associate Professor (Profesor Titular) in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and leads the Group of Theoretical & Applied Modeling (GOTHAM lab) at the Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI).

 

 

 

Filippo Menczer is the Luddy Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. He is also the director of the Observatory on Social Media, and a member (and former director) of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research.

 

 

Anxo Sánchez is currently full professor of Applied Mathematics at the Carlos III University of Madrid and founder of the research GISC research group in (1996). He is also an associated researcher of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) of the University of Zaragoza.

 

 

Anna received her BS in Biology from the University of Barcelona and her PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the study of plant-animal interactions in terrestrial ecosystems, which she examines both from an ecological and an evolutionary perspective.