David Krakauer (born December 28, 1967) is an American evolutionary biologist. He is the president and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the

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Biography

Born in Hawaii, Krakauer grew up in southern Portugal and moved to London, England, for secondary school. He attended

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, where he earned degrees in computer science and mathematics. He received his D.Phil. in evolutionary theory from

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in 1995, where he stayed on as a postdoctoral research fellow.

Career

Krakauer has held positions as a visiting fellow at the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute at the

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, Sage Fellow at the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the

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, a long-term fellow of the

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, and visiting professor of evolution at

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. At the

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, he served as the founding director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, the co-director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, and professor of mathematical genetics. Since 2015, Krakauer has served as the president and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the

. He previously served as the institute's faculty chair and as a resident professor and an external professor. He also co-directs the Collective Computation Group (C4) at the Santa Fe Institute. Krakauer was included in ''

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''s Smart List 2012 as one of fifty people "who will change the world".

References

External links

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Complexity and Stupidity
interview with Sam Harris on the ''Waking Up'' podcast *
Laziness, Technology and Brain Scanning a Billion People: A Conversation with David Krakauer
interview with Robert Wolcott for ''Forbes'' *
John and David Krakauer
profile in ''Current Biology'' *
How Your Leadership Skills Will Determine Your Company Culture
article in ''Entrepreneur'' *
Take Me to the Limit
interview with Mary-Charlotte Domandi on Science Radio Cafe *
The Roots of Technological Singularity Can Be Traced Back to the Stone Age
editorial in ''Wired UK'' *
Never Mind Turing Tests. What About Terminator Tests?
editorial in ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Krakauer, David 21st-century American biologists Alumni of the University of Oxford 1967 births Living people Santa Fe Institute people Scientists from Hawaii American evolutionary biologists Alumni of the University of London University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty