Stefan Thurner

Stefan Thurner (* 1969 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian physicist and complexity researcher. Since 2009 he has been professor for the science of complex systems at the Medical University of Vienna . He has headed the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) since 2015 . He was named Austrian Scientist of the Year 2017 by the Club of Education and Science Journalists .

Life

Stefan Thurner studied theoretical physics at the University of Vienna and the Technical University of Vienna . After stays at Columbia University (1995/96), Humboldt University Berlin and Boston University (1996/97) , he completed his habilitation in 2001 at the Vienna University of Technology. He completed a second doctoral degree in economics at the University of Vienna.

Thurner has been Professor for the Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna since 2009 . Since 2007 he has been an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute , and since 2010 Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg . Since 2015 he has headed the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH), which he helped initiate , and has been a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University since 2016 .

In his scientific work, Stefan Thurner deals, among other things, with the fundamentals of complex systems, systemic risk , network medicine, computational social science and financial crises .

Awards (selection)

• 2017: Scientist of the Year of the Education and Science Journalists' Club

Publications (selection)

• with Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns: Principles of evolution: from the Planck epoch to complex multicellular life. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-26802-1 .
• Systemic financial risk , Steinbeis / OECD Publishing, Stuttgart / Paris 2012, ISBN 978-3-941417-93-9 .
• with J. Doyne Farmer and J. Geanakoplos: Leverage causes fat tails and clustered volatility. In: Quantitative Finance. 12, 2012, pp. 695-707. doi: 10.1080 / 14697688.2012.674301
• with R. Hanel and Murray Gell-Mann : How multiplicity of random processes determines entropy and the derivation of the maximum entropy principle for complex systems. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 111, 2014, pp. 6905-6910. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1406071111
• with P. Klimek and S. Aichberger: Disentangling genetic and environmental risk factors for individual diseases from multiplex comorbidity networks. In: Scientific Reports. 6, 2016, p. 39658, doi: 10.1038 / srep39658
• with S. Poledna: Elimination of systemic risk in financial networks by means of a systemic risk transaction tax. In: Quantitative Finance. 16, 2016, pp. 1469-7696. doi: 10.1080 / 14697688.2016.1156146
• with R. Hanel, P. Klimek: Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-882193-9 .
• Big data and the consequences: can we still be saved? , Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7117-3014-5
• The fragility of the world: what threatens us. How we protect ourselves. edition a, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-99001-428-8

Web links

• Stefan Thurner Medical University of Vienna
• Stefan Thurner Complexity Science Hub Vienna
• Stefan Thurner Santa Fe Institute
• Stefan Thurner Forum Alpbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} CV Stefan Thurner . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} HOME - CSH. Retrieved February 5, 2018 (American English). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} orf.at: complexity researcher Stefan Thurner . January 8, 2018, accessed on January 8, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Complexity researcher Stefan Thurner is "Scientist of the Year". January 8, 2018, accessed on January 8, 2018.
5. ↑ orf.at: science.talk: Stefan Thurner . Retrieved January 8, 2018.