UCD Academic Research Staff

Staff associated with the PhD programme in Complex Systems and Computational Social Science are listed  here. Many of the academic staff involved in the CSCS PhD Thematic Programme are Core Researchers in various active Research Groups across the Geary Institute and CASL and these specific links are also given below:

Petra Ahrweiler CASL/ School of Business  Link to Research Group

Tony Brabazon CASL/School of Business Link to Research Group

Ted Cox CASL/School of Mathematical Sciences Link to Research Group

Padraig Cunningham CASL/School of Computer Science  Link to Research Group

Jos Elkink Dynamics Lab/School of Politics and International Relations/Link to Research Group

Nial Friel Dynamics Lab/CASL/School of Mathermatical Sciences Link to Research Group

Tahar Kechadi School of Computer Science and Informatics Link to Research Group

Claire Gormley School of Mathematical Sciences

Brendan Murphy School of Mathematical Sciences Link to Research Group

Diane Payne Dynamics Lab Geary Institute/CASL Link to Research Group

Scott Rickard CASL/Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical Engineering Link to Research Group

Post-Doctoral Researchers (Linked to Dynamics Lab at UCD Geary and CASL Institutes)

Pablo Lucas Dynamics Lab Geary Institute, UCD

Research Focus: Dynamics Of Innovative Health Care Delivery: A Social Network Approach

Michel Schilperoord IRU, Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, UCD

Raffaela Callabrese Dynamics Lab, Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, UCD

External Academic Participation

Nigel Gilbert             Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Department of Sociology,University of Surrey

Andreas Pyka           Department of Economics, University of Bremen,

Jim Bergin                Department of Economics, Queens University, Canada

Stephen Kinsella        Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick

Georgiy Bobashev      RTI International, USA

CSCS Programme Director

Diane Payne           This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

CSCS PhD Fellows

Stage I

Xiong Hang (Barry)

Research Focus: Modelling the relationship between natural resource abundance and economic development

Christina Ruddle

Research Focus: Simulating Irish Innovation Networks

Dan Maher (Part time)

Research Focus: Mapping  the Emergence of Ireland’s Ocean Technologies Ocean Innovation Cluster

Benjamin Schrempf

Research Focus: Innovation Economics, Regional Innovation Networks, Complex and Adaptive Systems, Social Network Analysis and Agent Based Modelling

Bei Gao

Research Focus: Management of Emerging Technologies (Greentech) For Economic Impact

Stage II

Uwe Obermeier

Research Focus: Innovation Research, Interdisciplinarity, Higher Education Research,
Social Network Analysis, Bibliometrics

Conrad Lee

Research Focus: Community Detection in Social Networks; Propagation of Information in Social Nedtworks; Detecting large-scale social divisions.

Visiting CSCS PhD Fellows

Zejing Qu (2010-2011)

Research Focus: Regional Innovation-  Research on Jiangsu innovation pathway against global value chains division” funded by Ministry of Education in Jiangsu province

Geary Institute Management

Colm Harmon               Geary Institute Director    This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Susan Butler                Geary Institute Manager    This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it