Seminar 11th January 2011 10 a.m. University of Southampton, Building 32, Room 1015
How can complexity science address Earth system challenges?
Dr James Dyke
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
- Web page
- http://bgc-jena.mpg.de/~jdyke/
- Categories
- Bioinformatics, Climate, Complex Systems, Earth Observation, Ecology, Evolution, Landscape evolution, Neuroscience, Systems biology
- Submitter
- Petrina Butler
Dr James Dyke
Complex Systems Simulation Seminar Series (CS^4)
from the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, the Complexity in Real-World Contexts USRG and the Computational Modelling Group.
Dr James Dyke works as a post-doctoral research scientist at the Biospheric Theory and Modelling group, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. He is partly funded by the HGF Planetary Evolution & Life project that considers under what conditions life may emerge and evolve in the universe. Prior to working at the MPI, he obtained a PhD (Dphil) in Informatics from the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex.
His research focuses on considering the role of life in the long-term evolution of the Earth and any other planets that feature widespread life. To that end he develops mathematical models that explore the effects of life on the Earth's atmosphere, oceans and rocks within an evolutionary, ecological and thermodynamic context.
Organised by
Dr Seth Bullock
Director, Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS), and Head of Group, Science & Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe)
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ