Spatial Human Cooperation
Invited Speakers
Reader at the University of Bristol, UK
Focusing on the development and application of new powerful theoretical tools for the study of complex biological networks, Thilo’s group collaborates closely with experts from various fields to apply our methods to a wide range of applications from fundamental insights in theoretical physics and mathematics, to answering questions from applied research.
Courant Research Center Evolution of Social Behavior
Research Group Evolution of cooperation and prosocial behaviour
University of Göttingen
As an evolutionary biologist working experimentally on the topic of human social behavior, Dirk focuses on the evolution and maintenance of cooperative behavior in humans in structured populations, and also on comparative studies on cooperation between humans and between non-human primates.
Department of Mathematics
The University of British Columbia
With a primary interest in the evolution of cooperation and the role of population structures, Christoph works on different aspects of how cooperation arises and is maintained. In particular, this includes voluntary participation, adding reward or punishment opportunities and structured populations.
Complex System Group
Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
With an extensive physics background ranging from self-organization in complex systems, driven lattice gases, cellular automata, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, Györy works on evolutionary games on graphs and with a focus on maintenance of cooperation
Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems
Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences
University of Zaragoza
With a background in statistical physics and in the physics of complex systems, Yamir has worked on complex networks in several fields of science, including interactions between structure and function in biological, technological and social networks, nonlinear dynamical systems coupled to complex structures and the emergence of collective behavior.
Professor of Computer Science
Information Systems Department
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
With a Doctorate in theoretical chemistry from the University of Perugia, Italy Marco’s current research interests are the modeling of evolutionary games in networks, experimental games, complex networks and systems, and evolutionary computation.
Department of Mathematics
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Building on his background in physics and mathematics, Anxo has worked on modelling a number of problems arising in different fields, from materials science to biology through behavioral economics.
Co-head of the Université Libre de Bruxelles Machine Learning group and research professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Artificial Intelligence lab
Tom’s interdisciplinary work involves the study of social, biological and other sciences using skills and principles from computer science and mathematics. In particular his focus is on evolutionary dynamics (ED) and, since a few years, also on computational biology (CB).
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
With a BA and PhD in Mathematics from Harvard, Corina works on how population structure affects the outcome of evolutionary processes, whether individuals interact at random, or whether they interact in well-defined networks, and how crucial are these in the understanding of biological interactions. Her work led to a general result that describes the effect of structure on evolution.
Complexity & Networks
Imperial College London
In combination with analytical work, Jelena works on understanding the interaction between spatial structure and cooperative behavior in human societies.
From theory to experiments ... and back!
Faculty of Economics and Econometrics of the
University of Amsterdam
Assistant professor at the Department of General Economics, Aljaž is focused mainly on dynamics of social institutions such as social networks, culture and social norms, and their effect on social behavior such as voluntary assistance and cooperation, utilising laboratory experiments, computer simulations and game theoretic analysis.
