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Evo Devo Universe is a global community of theoretical and applied physicists, chemists, biologists, cognitive and social scientists, computer scientists, technologists, philosophers, information theorists, complexity scholars and systems theorists who are interested in better characterizing the relationship and difference between evolutionary and developmental processes in the universe and its subsystems. The project originated from John Smart and Clément Vidal in Jan 2008.

Directors

EDU Directors do the main work of maintaining and moderating the research community, on a part-time basis (in alpha order by last name).

• Georgi Georgiev, physicist working on understanding the mechanisms for the measured exponential growth in complexity through time.
  Affiliations: Assistant Professor, Assumption College, Worcester, MA USA

• John M. Smart, systems theorist studying accelerating change and evolutionary development.
  Affiliations: Associate Professor, University of Advancing Technology, Tempe, AZ USA; President, Acceleration Studies Foundation, Mountain View, CA USA

• Clement Vidal, philosopher of science and cosmology, focusing on natural, comprehensive and systematic philosophy.
  Affiliations: Post-Doc, Vrije Universiteit Brussels; Researcher, Centre Leo Apostel, ECCO Group, and Global Brain Institute, Brussels, Belgium

Institutionally-Affiliated Scholars

The following institutionally-affiliated scholars have agreed to publicly endorse and participate in the EDU interdisciplinary research community at some level to date. Other scholars can be found on our listserve, EDU-Talk. Listings are in alpha order by last name:

• Diederik Aerts, scholar in quantum physics, philosophy of science, and the construction of integrated worldviews.
  Affiliations: Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussels - VUB; Director, Centre Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Brussels, Belgium

• Robert Aunger, evolutionary transitions theorist, expert in evolution of behavior, motivation, morality, technology, culture and complexity.
  Affiliations: Researcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

• Yaneer Bar-Yam, developing new methods for the study of complex systems with application to scientific questions and social concerns.
  Affiliations: President, New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA USA; Chairman, Internat'l Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS)

• Martin Beech, astronomer and professor, researching stellar evolution, meteorites and terraforming but also history of science and global issues.
  Affiliations: Professor of Astronomy, Campion College, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada

• Adrian Bejan, distinguished engineering scientist, discoverer of the constructal law, a physical law of design generation in nature.
  Affiliations: J A Jones Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engrg, Duke University, Durham, NC USA

• Howard Bloom, distinguished author and scholar of cosmology, biology, paleontology and sociology.
  Affiliations: Visiting Scholar, New York University; Brooklyn, NY

• Tommaso Bolognesi, Researcher in emergence and self-organization in simple models of computation and discrete models of spacetime.
  Affiliation: Senior Researcher at ISTI, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR), Pisa, Italy.

• Terry Bristol, interdisciplinary scholar in history and philosophy of science, philosophy of engineering, complementarity, philosophy of thermodynamics.
  Affiliations: President, Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Portland, OR USA

• José Roberto Campanha, theoretical physicist and scholar in power law distributions and evolution.
  Affiliations: Professor, Department of Physics, Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE), UNES, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Jean Chaline, paleontologist and biologist applying scale relativity theory to biological and human evolution.
  Affiliations: Emeritus Director, Laboratory of Biogeosciences, University of Burgundy, a unit of National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

• David Christian, historian, scholar and leading advocate of big history, the multidiscipinary history of the universe from birth to the present day.
  Affiliations: President, International Big History Assn; Co-Founder, Big History Project; Professor of History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

• Milan M. Cirkovic, astrophysicist and scholar in cosmology, astrobiology, philosophy of science and futures studies.
  Affiliations: Associate Professor, Dept of Physics, University of Novi Sad; Senior Research Associate, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

• James A. Coffman, developmental biologist and scholar interested in the relationship between development and causality.
  Affiliations: Associate Professor, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, ME USA

• Peter A. Corning, biologist, complex systems scholar, author of books and papers on the role of synergy in biological and human evolution.
  Affiliations: Director, Institute for the Study of Complex Systems, Friday Harbor, WA USA

• Lee Cronin, chemist, scholar in inorganic (non-carbon-based) cells, self-assembly, self-organization, and chemical evolution.
  Affiliations: Professor, Dept of Chemistry, University of Glasgow; Director, Cronin Laboratory, U. of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Terrence W. Deacon, anthropologist, scholar in brain evolution and development, origins of language, bio-cultural evolution, and emergence.
  Affiliations: Professor, Biological Anthropology and Neuroscience and Chair, Dept of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA

• Jean-Paul Delahaye, prolific author, science popularizer, mathematician, computer scientist researching algorithmic theory and its relation to our universe.
  Affiliations: Professor of Mathematics, Lille 1 Univ. of Science & Tech; Researcher, Multi-Agent Sys & Behaviors (SMAC) Group, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

• Joël de Rosnay, molecular biologist, complexity scholar, futurist, prolific author, and scholar in symbiosis and computer science.
  Affiliations: President, Biotics Intnat'l, Paris, France; Advisor, City of Science & Industry Museum, Paris, France

• Steven J. Dick, historian of science, prolific author, astronomer, and expert on astrobiology, astrosociology, and SETI.
  Affiliations: Chief Historian, NASA, 2003-2009. Member, Internat'l Academy of Astronautics. (Washington DC USA)

• Taner Edis, physicist, philosopher, scholar of complex systems and the naturalistic world view.
  Affiliations: Professor of Physics, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO USA

• Börje Ekstig, physicist, scholar of biological, social and technol. evolution, proposer of condensation of development.
  Affiliations: Retired Assoc. Professor of Science Education, Dept. of Curriculum Studies, U. of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

• George F. R. Ellis, mathematician, one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. See the wikipedia article.
  Affiliations: Prof. Emeritus, Mathematics Dept, U. of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Visiting Prof. of Astronomy, Queen Mary U. of London, London, UK

• Charles Fadel, scholar in global systems dynamics and educational curricula for the 21st century.
  Affiliations: Founder, Center for Curriculum Redesign, Boston, MA; Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

• Rainer Feistel, physicist and oceanographer, generalizing the concept of Huxley ritualization in animal behavior.
  Affiliations: Oceanographer, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Rostock, Germany

• Georgi Georgiev, physicist working on understanding the mechanisms for the measured exponential growth in complexity through time.
  Affiliations: Assistant Professor, Assumption College, Worcester, MA USA

• Carlos Gershenson, complexity theorist, researching self-organization, evolution, ALife, and cognition.
  Affiliations: Director, Dept of Computer Science, Nat'l Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico; Editor-in-Chief, Complexity Digest

• Richard Gordon, embryologist and theoretical biologist exploring development, genetics, and evolution.
  Affiliations: Professor, Department of Radiology, U. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

• Jan Greben, physicist exploring cosmological parameters, quantum field theory, and universal hierarchy and evolution.
  Affiliations: Principal Scientist, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

• Hari Mohan Gupta, electrical engineer and scholar in power law distributions and evolution.
  Affiliations: Professor of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

• William P. Hall, evolutionary biologist and organization theorist focusing on autopoiesis, emergence, and knowledge.
  Affiliations: Senior Fellow (Hon.), Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne; President, Kororoit Institute, Melbourne, Australia

• Francis Heylighen, systems theorist and cyberneticist focusing on the evolution of complexity.
  Affiliations: Research Professor, Free University of Brussels (VUB); Director, ECCO Research Group, Brussels, Belgium

• David Holcman, mathematician and computational biologist modeling microstructures in biological systems.
  Affiliations: Director of Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Computational Biology, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

• Hippokratis Kiaris, biologist and scholar interested in the role of the evolutionary and developmental microenvironment in health and disease.
  Affiliations: Assistant Professor and Director, Kiaris Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

• Osame Kinouchi, researcher in complex systems, statistical physics, astrobiology and cellular automata
  Affiliations: Associate Professor, University of São Paulo Department of Physics, São Paulo, Brazil

• Otto Laske, philosopher, epistemologist, psychologist, scholar of cognitive development.
  Affiliations: Founder, Interdevelopmental Institute, Gloucester, MA USA

• Cadell Last, evolutionary anthropologist interested in integrating our evolutionary past into a systems-level analysis of our future development.

• John A. Leslie, philosopher of science and cosmology, distinguished scholar in anthropic reasoning.
  Affiliations: Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

• Michael Levin, developmental biologist investigating information storage and processing in biological systems.
  Affilitations: Principal Investigator, The Levin Lab, Tufts University.

• Giuseppe Longo, mathematician, researcher in logic, theory of computation, interfaces between mathematics, physics, biology.
  Affiliations: Researcher, Ctr of Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA) and CIRPHLES, Dept. of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

• Nicolás Lori, interdisciplinary researcher in neuroscience, logic and physics.
  Affiliations: Research Assistant Professor, IBILI, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra Portugal

• Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicist presently specializing in black holes and cosmology.
  Affiliations: Astrophysicist, Paris Observatory and LUTH Cosmology Laboratory, Meudon, France

• Garimella Rama Murthy, computer engineer and specialist in neural networks, intelligent systems and cybernetics.
  Affiliations: Associate Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

• Akop P. Nazaretyan, psychologist, culturologist, scholar of big (universal) history.
  Affiliations: Professor of Psychology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Chief Researcher, Inst. of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

• Laurent Nottale, cosmologist and pioneering theorist in scale relativity and fractal space-time.
  Affiliations: Director of Research, CNRS; Researcher, Paris Observatory, Paris, France

• Steve Omohundro studies self-improving artificial intelligence and the evolution of natural intelligence.
  Affiliations: Founder, Self-Aware Systems, Palo Alto, USA

• Alain Prochiantz, neurobiologist and specialist of cerebral morphogenesis and stochastic developmental processes.
  Affiliations: Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, Paris, France

• C. Henning Reschke, researcher in social evolutionary paradigms, information organisation and processes of change.
  Affiliations: Researcher, Institute for Management Research (IMFK), Köln, Germany

• Marko A. Rodriguez computer and cognitive scientist studying graph theory and its application to various areas including collective intelligence.
  Affiliations: Graph Systems Architect, Aurelius, Santa Fe, USA; Visiting Researcher, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

• Stanley N. Salthe, theoretical biologist, scholar in developmentalism, hierarchy structures, thermodynamics, and natural philosophy.
  Affiliations: Professor Emeritus, Biology, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Visiting Scientist in Biological Sciences, Binghamton Univ., SUNY, Binghamton, NY USA

• John M. Smart, systems theorist studying accelerating change and evolutionary development.
  Affiliations: Professor, University of Advancing Technology, Tempe, AZ USA; President, Acceleration Studies Foundation, Mountain View, CA USA

• Tony Smith, complex systems analyst studying emergence, cellular automata, and discrete processes.
  Affiliations: Researcher, Kororoit Institute; Complex Systems Analyst, Meme Media, Melbourne, Australia

• Fred Spier, anthropologist, scholar of big history (cosmic origins to modern society).
  Affiliations: Senior Lecturer in Big History, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Eric Steinhart is a computer scientist and philosopher interested in the application of evolutionary principles in fundamental ontology.
  Affiliations: Associate Professor of Philosophy, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, USA

• John Stewart, evolutionary thinker, author and evolutionary activist.
  Affiliations: Core Member, Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group at Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

• Robert E. Ulanowicz, eminent ecologist, pioneer of developmental ascendancy, and scholar of process philosophy.
  Affiliations: Professor Emeritus, Theoretical Ecology, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory; Courtesy Professor, Arthur R. Marshall Laboratory, Gainesville, FL USA

• Rüdiger Vaas, science journalist and philosopher, focusing on cosmology (big bang, time, multiverse, far future) and anthropology.
  Affiliations: Astronomy editor, Image of Science; Affiliate, Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

• Pushkar G. Vaidya, astrobiologist, author, and proposer of the cosmic contact censorship hypothesis.
  Affiliations: Director, Indian Astrobiology Research Centre (IARC), Maharashtra, India

• Clement Vidal, philosopher of science and cosmology, focusing on natural, comprehensive and systematic philosophy.
  Affiliations: Post-Doc, Free University of Brussels (VUB); Researcher, Centre Leo Apostel, ECCO Group, and Global Brain Institute, Brussels, Belgium

• Jan Visser, physicist and cog. scientist, scholar in learning development from evolutionary and ecological perspectives.
  Affiliations: President and Senior Researcher, Learning Development Institute (LDI), France

• Steven R. Walk, electrical engineer, studying quantitative technology forecasting and social change using natural performance and diffusion models.
  Affiliations: Assistant Professor, Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA USA

• Bruce H. Weber, professor of biochemistry emeritus, and scholar in evolution, development, self-organization, natural selection, and complex systems.
  Affiliations: Prof. of Biochem. Emeritus, CSU Fullerton; Robert H Woodworth Chair in Sci. & Natural Philos. Emeritus, Bennington College, Bennington, VT USA

• Hector Zenil, researcher in experimental algorithmic theory and its relation to the physical world.
  Affiliations: Research Associate, Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Sheffield; IHPST, Univ. of Paris; Special Projects, Wolfram Research (England, UK)

Have you done research (peer reviewed or trade articles) in any topics related to EDU research questions? Please email Clement Vidal about being listed here, and if interested, fill-in the EDU-Talk subscription form to join the listserve discussions on these issues!

Independent Scholars

The following independent scholars, whose published work advances evolutionary and developmental scholarship in the estimation of the EDU community, have agreed to publicly endorse and participate in the community at some level to date. Other scholars can be found on our listserve, EDU-Talk. Listings are in alpha order by last name:

• Mary Ann Allison, author and scholar of complexity and evolutionary process in sociology and culture.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar; Principal, The Allison Group, Brooklyn, NY USA

• Robin Allott, author and scholar in linguistics, evolutionary psychology, and linguistic theories of cultural evolution.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Language Brain and Body Evolution, Seaford, United Kingdom

• Jon Beach, Author and scholar interested in the relationship between biological evolution, technological innovation and human consciousness.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Orange CA USA

• Rick Bradford, physicist, cosmologist and engineer, researching cosmic coincidences and fine-tuning.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

• William R. Buckley, author and developer of machine self-replication and machine ontogeny.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA

• John O. Campbell, researcher in evolutionary process in the universe, including Quantum Darwinism.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar; Founder, UniversalDarwinism.com, Victoria, BC Canada

• John Chelen, scholar in cellular automata, information theory, intelligence, cosmology and quantum physics.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Washington, DC USA

• Michael Chorost, author and scholar in human-machine interfaces and social and technological evolution and development.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Science Writer; External Advisory Boards for Neuroscience Research, Northwestern and Brown Universities; Washington, DC USA

• Bruce Damer, researcher and author employing digital simulation in space, complexity and origin of life challenges.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar and Project Leader, EvoGrid (origin of life simulation), Santa Cruz, CA USA

• James N. Gardner, complexity theorist, author, lawyer, scholar in philosophy, and proposer of the selfish biocosm hypothesis.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Portland, OR USA

• Rafael Gomes de Oliveira, structural engineer, independent scholar in architecture, engineering, structural art, skyscrapers, the concept of worldview, creativity, and complex systems as applied to the performance of cities/ecosystems.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Structural Engineer at Thornton Tomasetti, Sandbox Network, American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineering Institute, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Rede Brasileira por Cidades Justas e Sustentáveis (Nossa Curitiba), Curitiba, Brazil

• William F. Harms, philosopher and scholar in cultural evolution, information, and moral ecologies.
  Affiliations: Philosophy Instructor and Independent Scholar, Seattle, WA, USA

• Hans Kuijper, retired economist and sinologist (China studies) turned systems scientist; application of complexity science to country and area studies.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Rotterdam, Netherlands

• John McCrone, science writer and researcher in hierarchy theory, logic and mind science.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Webmaster, Dichotomistic.com, Christchurch, New Zealand

• Robert L. Oldershaw, cosmologist and philosopher studying discrete fractal paradigms and hierarchical systems theory.
  Affiliations: Independent Researcher in the field of Cosmology, Amherst, MA, USA

Are you an independent scholar who has done notable peer-reviewed research in topics related to EDU Themes? Please email Clement Vidal about being listed here, and if interested, fill-in the EDU-Talk subscription form to join the listserve discussions on these issues!

Associates

EDU Associates help with research community building, on a part-time basis (in alpha order by last name).

• Cecilia Abadie, Computer scientist studying the role of networks on complex systems evolution.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, San Diego, CA USA

• Arnaud J. Blanchard, computer and cognitive scientist, scholar in intelligent systems, imitation, and emotion.
  Affiliations: Postdoctoral Fellow, FEELIX, Herts, United Kingdom

• Atanu Chatterjee, independent researcher studying complex systems; research interests encompass all areas of nature and natural processes.
  Affiliations: Researcher, Indian Astrobiology Research Centre (IARC) Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, India

• James N. Gardner, complexity theorist, author, lawyer, scholar in philosophy, and proposer of the selfish biocosm hypothesis.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Portland, OR USA

• Brian Hoffstein is exploring universal complexity in systems, and how they can be applied for societal progress.
  

Affiliations: Independent Scholar, New York, NY USA.

• Hans Kuijper, retired economist and sinologist (China studies) turned systems scientist; application of complexity science to country and area studies.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Rotterdam, Netherlands

• Cadell Last, evolutionary anthropologist, interested in human divergence, technocultural pathways, and the future of intelligence.
  

Affiliations: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (2014).

• Stefan Pernar, independent systems scholar, philosopher, and author.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Philosophy Writer, Entrepreneur, Student, Melbourne, Australia

• Eyal Sivan, integration architect studying ethics and social systems, proposer of the connective hypothesis.
  Affiliations: Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada

Available Associate activities (per your interest and ability):

• Finding scholars from diverse backgrounds interested in exploring evolutionary and/or developmental models of universal change
• Building an EDU bibliography, doing wiki editing or authorship projects
• Fact checking and peer-reviewing scholarly articles
• Helping with conference preparation (call for papers, organizational activities)

All Interested Scholars: Would you like to help manage and grow the EDU community? Can you commit at least four hours a week over a minimum of four months to help develop our community? Please email John Smart about becoming an Associate. All EDU members are welcome to participate in our fortnightly EDU Project teleconferences. Associates who participate actively and regularly may be asked to become Directors.