Speakers

Professor and the Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. She specialises in interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics, complex systems, critical phenomena, sociophysics and agent-based modeling. Her main interests consist of describing opinion dynamics and diffusion of innovation. In 2007 she won the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics. Known for proposing the "united we stand, divided we fall" model.

One of the world’s leading experts on voting behaviour and electoral systems. Professor in the department of political science at the University of Montreal, University Research Chair in Electoral Studies, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a research fellow with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC), the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ) and the Center for Interuniversity Research Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO). He is an author of 22 books and 219 articles in top tier political science journals.

Professor of Complexity Science at the University of Potsdam and External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. Her research focuses on the use of information theory in the study of formation, maintenance and stability of complex systems. Recently she has begun studying the stability of democracies. This and other projects are part of a long-term goal of building a quantitative framework for the dynamics of complex systems, firmly rooted in mathematics, physics, and philosophy of science.