Geoffrey West
President and Distinguished Professor of the Santa Fe Institute, USA
As Senior Fellow and leader of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geoffrey West’s primary interests have been in fundamental questions concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. In the mid-1990s, his focus shifted from particle to biological physics, and to studying the most complex of all systems: life. Since then, he has done major work at the confluence of biology and physics, including seminal work on biological scaling. His contributions have provided a framework for quantitative analyses of fundamental issues in biology. Among his current interests is the extension of these ideas to generate quantitative descriptions of the structure and dynamics of social organizations such as cities and corporations, and the relationships between efficiency and innovation.
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