Maya Paczuski (; born April 7, 1963) is the head and founder of the Complexity Science Group at the

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. She is a well-cited physicist whose work spans self-organized criticality, avalanche dynamics, earthquake, and complex networks. She was born in Israel in 1963 but grew up in the United States. Maya Paczuski received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from

M.I.T. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sci ...

in 1986 and then went on to study with Mehran Kardar, earning her Ph.D. in

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from the same institute. Before founding the Complexity Science Group at the

, she held appointments at numerous institutions around the world, most notably,

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, the

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(Copenhagen, Denmark), the

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(Copenhagen, Denmark),

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, the von Neumann Institute for Computing at

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, and the

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for Theoretical Physics, where she organized and ran the first complex systems and statistical physics program. Paczuski was married to the late Danish

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, with whom she has coauthored papers.

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Maya Paczuski's Homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Paczuski, Maya Canadian physicists Academic staff of the University of Calgary Living people Canadian women physicists American women scientists Israeli women scientists Israeli women physicists 1963 births Canadian women scientists American women academics Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

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Selected publications

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