Stefan Thurner (born 1969) is an Austrian physicist and complexity researcher. He has been professor for Science of Complex Systems at the

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since 2009, external professor at the

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since 2007, and guest professor at the

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in Singapore since 2016. He promoted the foundation of the

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and has been its president since 2015. The CSH Vienna is a research co-operation of six Austrian universities (

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) and the

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, three research institutions ( AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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IMBA), and the Austrian Economic Chambers, with the aim to promote

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and complexity research in Austria. Stefan Thurner's research areas are the foundations of

complex systems A complex system is a system composed of many components that may interact with one another. Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication s ...

systemic risk In finance, systemic risk is the risk of collapse of an entire financial system or entire market, as opposed to the risk associated with any one individual entity, group or component of a system, that can be contained therein without harming the ...

network medicine Network medicine is the application of network science towards identifying, preventing, and treating diseases. This field focuses on using network topology and network dynamics towards identifying diseases and developing medical drugs. Biological ...

computational social sciences Computational social science is an interdisciplinary academic sub-field concerned with computational approaches to the social sciences. This means that computers are used to model, simulate, and analyze social phenomena. It has been applied in a ...

, and

financial crisis A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with Bank run#Systemic banki ...

. In 2018, Stefan Thurner was awarded "Scientist of the year 2017" in Austria.

Selected publications

Books

*2018: S. Thurner, R. Hanel, P. Klimek: ''Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems'',

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, Oxford 2018, * 2012: S. Thurner, H. Meyer-Ortmanns: ''Principles of evolution: from the Planck epoch to complex multicellular life.'' Springer, Berlin/ Heidelberg 2011, *2012: S. Thurner: ''Systemic

financial risk Financial risk is any of various types of risk associated with financing, including financial transactions that include company loans in risk of default. Often it is understood to include only downside risk, meaning the potential for financi ...

'', Steinbeis/OECD Publishing, Stuttgart/ Paris,

Journal articles and book chapters

* S. Thurner, The Creative Destruction of Evolution, in: S. Sim, B. Seet (Eds.), ''"

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’s 10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution''", Wildtype Books, * S. Thurner, P. Klimek, S. Aichberger: Disentangling genetic and environmental risk factors for individual diseases from multiplex comorbidity networks''.'' In: ''Scientific Reports.'' 6, 2016, S. 39658, doi:10.1038/srep39658 * S. Poledna, S. Thurner, : Elimination of systemic risk in financial networks by means of a systemic risk transaction tax''.'' In: ''Quantitative Finance.'' 16, 2016, S. 1469–7696. doi:10.1080/14697688.2016.115614 * S. Thurner, R. Hanel, M. Gell-Mann: How multiplicity of random processes determines entropy and the derivation of the maximum entropy principle for complex systems''.'' In: ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.'' 111, 2014, S. 6905–6910. doi:10.1073/pnas.1406071111 * S. Thurner, J. Doyne Farmer, J. Geanakoplos: Leverage causes fat tails and clustered volatility. In: ''Quantitative Finance.'' 12, 2012, S. 695–707. doi:10.1080/14697688.2012.674301

References

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