Stefan Thurner (born 1969) is an Austrian physicist and complexity researcher. He has been professor for Science of Complex Systems at the

Medical University of Vienna The Medical University of Vienna (German: ''Medizinische Universität Wien'') is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It is the direct successor to the faculty of medicine at the University of Vienna, founded in 1365 by Rudolf IV, Duk ...

since 2009, external professor at the

Santa Fe Institute The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, includ ...

since 2007, and guest professor at the

Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various inte ...

in Singapore since 2016. He promoted the foundation of the

Complexity Science Hub Vienna The Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) is a Vienna-based research organisation with the aim to bundle, coordinate and advance the research of complex systems, system analysis and big data science in Austria. Organization The CSH was founded ...

and has been its president since 2015. The CSH Vienna is a research co-operation of six Austrian universities (

TU Wien TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...

Graz University of Technology Graz University of Technology (german: link=no, Technische Universität Graz, short ''TU Graz'') is one of five universities in Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1811 by Archduke John of Austria and is the oldest science and technology research ...

Vienna University of Economics and Business The Vienna University of Economics and Business (german: Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, WU) is a public research university in Vienna, Austria, the largest university focusing on business, management and economics in Europe. It has been ranked a ...

Danube University Krems The University for Continuing Education Krems () is an Austrian university specializing in further education for working professionals. It is located in Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria. Name The Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Re ...

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna The University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (German: ''Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien'' - in short: VUW) was founded in 1767 as the world's third school for veterinary medicine (after Lyon and Alfort) by Milan's Ludovico Scotti, origin ...

) and the

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, three research institutions ( AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

IIASA The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute located in Laxenburg, near Vienna, in Austria. Through its research programs and initiatives, the institute conducts policy-o ...

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) is an independent biomedical research organisation founded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The institute employs around 250 ...

IMBA), and the Austrian Economic Chambers, with the aim to promote

Big Data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

and complexity research in Austria. Stefan Thurner's research areas are the foundations of

complex systems A complex system is a system composed of many components which may interact with each other. Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication s ...

systemic risk In finance, systemic risk is the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or entire market, as opposed to the risk associated with any one individual entity, group or component of a system, that can be contained therein without harming the ...

network medicine Network medicine is the application of network science towards identifying, preventing, and treating diseases. This field focuses on using network topology and network dynamics towards identifying diseases and developing medical drugs. Biologica ...

, computational social sciences, and

financial crisis A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics, and man ...

. In 2018, Stefan Thurner was awarded "Scientist of the year 2017" in Austria.

Selected publications

Books

*2018: S. Thurner, R. Hanel, P. Klimek: ''Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems'',

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, Oxford 2018, * 2012: S. Thurner, H. Meyer-Ortmanns: ''Principles of evolution: from the Planck epoch to complex multicellular life.'' Springer, Berlin/ Heidelberg 2011, *2012: S. Thurner: ''Systemic financial risk'', Steinbeis/OECD Publishing, Stuttgart/ Paris,

Journal articles and book chapters

* S. Thurner, The Creative Destruction of Evolution, in: S. Sim, B. Seet (Eds.), ''“

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’s 10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution''”, Wildtype Books, * S. Thurner, P. Klimek, S. Aichberger: Disentangling genetic and environmental risk factors for individual diseases from multiplex comorbidity networks''.'' In: ''Scientific Reports.'' 6, 2016, S. 39658, doi:10.1038/srep39658 * S. Poledna, S. Thurner, : Elimination of systemic risk in financial networks by means of a systemic risk transaction tax''.'' In: ''Quantitative Finance.'' 16, 2016, S. 1469–7696. doi:10.1080/14697688.2016.115614 * S. Thurner, R. Hanel, M. 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, S. 6905–6910. doi:10.1073/pnas.1406071111 * S. Thurner,

J. Doyne Farmer J. Doyne Farmer (born 22 June 1952) is an American complex systems scientist and entrepreneur with interests in chaos theory, complexity and econophysics. He is Baillie Gifford Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, where he is also Dir ...

, J. Geanakoplos: Leverage causes fat tails and clustered volatility. In: ''Quantitative Finance.'' 12, 2012, S. 695–707. doi:10.1080/14697688.2012.674301

References

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