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In this SFI Seminar, Gianfranco Bertone of the University of Amsterdam traces the search for dark matter, from the observations and arguments that made it central to cosmology, to the experiments shaping the next decade of inquiry — such as using gravitational waves to probe dark matter.
SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Since the 1970s, his work has been rooted in mathematical theories and models to better understand a range of environmental issues.
All of biology is transient. Over time, identical cells can diverge into subgroups with different behaviors (size, protein expression, metabolism).
A new paper by SFI’s James Holehouse shows these population patterns don’t always reflect single-cell behavior or mechanisms.
SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social) has received a 2026 Glushko Dissertation Prize from the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation.
The prize recognizes recent Ph.D. dissertations for groundbreaking work in cognitive science.
In this SFI Seminar, Eric Goles of the University of Adolfo Ibáñez explores fungal automata, a cellular automaton model in which information flows only horizontally or vertically. He shows that despite these constraints, it can simulate arbitrary Boolean circuits and are computationally universal.
SFI's Han van der Maas has been named the next director of the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).
A professor of psychological methods, he has been involved with the IAS since its founding in 2016, previously as a principal investigator and with the management team.
In March, SFI's Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder) received two notable honors: he was elected a 2025 Fellow of the @aaas.org and named 2026 Distinguished Alumni by UNM. Both honors recognize Clauset’s foundational contributions to network science and computational social science.
Is the scientific enterprise too risk-averse?
SFI's Brandon Ogbunu joined an Open to Debate event at Johns Hopkins University, alongside other scientists and scholars, to discuss whether today’s incentive structures reward safe, incremental work over bold scientific thinking.
Watch the debate:
SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Society announced on May 27, 2026.
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All of biology is transient. Over time, a population of identical cells can change so that some subgroups exhibit different behaviors — everything from varying sizes to the expression of certain prote...
The Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation have awarded SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova a 2026 Glushko Dissertation Prize. The prize recognizes up to five rece...
SFI External Professor Han van der Maas has been named the next director of the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). Van der Maas, a professor of psychological methods at the ...
In March, SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder) received two notable honors: he was elected a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and...
SFI's Brian Enquist has received the Ecological Society of America’s Robert H. MacArthur Award, one of the field’s highest honors for mid-career ecologists.
The award recognizes Enquist’s work linking functional traits in organisms to the structure and functioning of communities and ecosystems.
SFI's Laurent Hébert-Dufresne has received the 2026 Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers in network science.
“This recognition reflects the deeply collaborative nature of complex systems research,” says Hébert-Dufresne.
SFI External Professor Brian Enquist (University of Arizona) has been awarded the Ecological Society of America's prestigious Robert H. MacArthur Award, which celebrates a mid-career ecologist for “me...
SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) is the 2026 recipient of the Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers working in network science.
