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Fellows and PhD students within the FAEME programme
Interdisciplinary Emergence fellowships
FAEME offers postdoctoral fellowship grants. The fellows will be engaged in emergence-related research with collaborations within the institutes: Institute of Physics (IoP), the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI), the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), the Informatics Institute (IvI), the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) , the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), and the Anton Pannekoek Institue for Astronomy (API).
CURRENT FELLOWS & PhD student (see all fellows here)
Abel Jansma| Fellow
Abel joined DIEP in November 2024 as a FAEME fellow, based at the IoP and ILLC. He has a background in physics and biology, and works on the role of composition, hierarchies, and higher order interactions in complex and living systems. At DIEP, he will study how the hierarchical structure of a system fixes the higher-order interactions, and how this relates to coarse-grainings. With this, he connects ideas from physics, biology, information theory, machine learning, and beyond.
Merijn Moody | PhD student
Merijn joined DIEP on October 1st 2024, as a FAEME PhD student. He is working on the development of a mathematical framework to identify and characterize emergent information structures in multivariate discrete data. Concretely, he will be working on connecting high-order spin models (which are a complete family of statistical models for discrete data) with the approaches used in graph theory, in particular, he is investigating a connection between the partition function of high-order spin models and the Tutte polynomial on matroids. Furthermore, Merijn will also investigate these models from an information geometrical perspective to determine if the graph structure manifests itself in the geometrical or topological properties of the models.
Vito Seinen | PhD student
Vito joined DIEP in March 2024 as a PhD student within the FAEME project. His research is on developing a framework that can capture emergent transitions in non-equilibrium dynamical systems. Of specific interest is describing the dynamical phase transitions that occur in active matter and other driven systems.
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Christian Hamster | Fellow
Christian is joining DIEP in September 2023 as a fellow in the context of FAEME. He works on stochastic PDEs, reaction-diffusion equations and pattern formation. At DIEP he will be modelling various systems including cell motility and models of ecosystem dynamics.
Swarnendu Banerjee | Fellow
Swarnendu is joining DIEP in August 2023 as a FAEME fellow. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher working with the Environmental Sciences Group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Prior to this, he served for a brief period as a postdoctoral fellow at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India and as a Visiting Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Although his training is in mathematics, the complexities in biology fascinate him. His research mainly revolves around questions concerning ecology, evolution and epidemiology.
Marco Alberto Javarone | Fellow
Marco Javarone joined DIEP in May 2023 as fellow in the context of FAEME. Marco works in Statistical Physics, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Evolutionary Game Theory, Optimization, Computational Neuroscience, and Social Dynamics. His project within DIEP aims at bridging notions of quantum and classical complexity.
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