Stefan Thurner

Stefan Thurner joined the Xevents team at IIASA on Jan 1 2010. His research focus is on agent based models of financial markets and its policy implications. He will be engaged in establishing a social dynamics observatory.

Prof. Thurner is full professor for Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna, where he founded the Complex Systems Research Group in 2003. Since 2007 he is external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

After his PhD in theoretical physics at the Technical University of Vienna in 1995, he held postdoc research positions at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Boston University before he joined the University of Vienna in 1999 and later Medical University. In 2001 he got a second PhD in economics at the University of Vienna and his Habilitation in theoretical physics. About this time - strongly influenced by visits to the Santa Fe Institute - he began to shift his focus from theoretical physics to biological and complex systems, which are now his main areas of scientific work.

Since 1995 Prof. Thurner has published more than 120 scientific articles in fundamental physics (topological excitations in quantum field theories, alternative entropy formulations), applied mathematics (wavelet statistics, fractal harmonic analysis, diffusion processes), complex systems(network theory, evolutionary systems), life sciences (heart beat dynamics, gene regulatory networks, cell motility, bioinformatics), econophysics (price formation, banking regulation, systemic risk) and lately in social sciences (opinion formation and buerocratic inefficiency). He holds 2 patents.

Prof. Thurner has (co-) organized several international workshops, conferences and summer schools, and has himself presented more than 150 talks. His work has received broad interest from the media such as the New York Times, BBC world, Nature, New Scientist, Physics World and is featured in more than 100 newspaper, radio and television reports. He works in a network of scientists mostly around the Santa Fe Institute, the Collegium Budapest, where he was a fellow in 2007, and several European initiatives, such as COST actions, where he serves as the Austrian delegate. Prof. Thurner serves as a member of several scientific boards.

Apart from science, Prof. Thurner has been active in quantitative financial consulting for financial institutions since 2003, in particular for automated trading strategies. In 1993 he founded a non-professional chamber music group for which he still plays the clarinet.



Last update: 08-FEB-2010

Klimek,P. Yegorov,Y. Hanel,R. Thurner,S. (2012)

Statistical detection of systematic election irregularities ... More

Thurner,S. Deffuant,G. Carletti,T. (2012)

Modeling socio-technical complexity (Editorial) ... More

Szell,M. Thurner,S. (2012)

Social dynamics in a large-scale online game ... More

Klimek,P. Hausmann,R. Thurner,S. (2012)

Empirical confirmation of creative destruction from world trade data ... More

Thurner,S. Farmer,J.D. Geanakoplos,J. (2012)

Leverage causes fat tails and clustered volatility ... More

Thurner,S. Szell,M. Sinatra,R. (2012)

Emergence of good conduct, scaling and Zipf Laws in human behavioral sequences in an online world ... More

Frank,A. Goud Collins,M. Clegg,M. Dieckmann,U. Kremenyuk,V. Kryazhimskiy,A. Linnerooth-Bayer,J. Levin,S. Lo,A. Ramalingam,B. Ramo,J. Roy,S. Saari,D. Shtauber,Z. Sigmund,K. Tepperman,J. Thurner,S. Yiwei,W. von Winterfeldt,D. (2012)

Security in the Age of Systemic Risk: Strategies, Tactics and Options for Dealing with Femtorisks and Beyond ... More

Thurner,S. Hanel,R. (2011)

Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average ... More

Thurner,S. (2011)

Comments by S. Thurner on the Visioneer white papers by D. Helbing and S. Balietti ... More

Klimek,P. Bayer,W. Thurner,S. (2011)

The blogosphere as an excitable social medium: Richter's and Omori's Law in media coverage ... More

Wilkins,J.F. Thurner,S. (2010)

The Jerusalem Game: Cultural evolution of the Golden Rule ... More