Doyne Farmer

J. Doyne Farmer is a prominent complex systems scientist and economist currently serving as the Director of Complexity Economics at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School.15 He is also the Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.13

Farmer's career spans over four decades, during which he has made significant contributions to various fields:

1. Current research: His current work focuses on economics, including agent-based modeling, financial instability, and technological progress.12

2. Academic positions: In addition to his roles at Oxford, Farmer is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.13

3. Industry experience: He was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative automated trading firm sold to UBS in 2006.15

4. Early career: During the 1980s, Farmer worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he founded the Complex Systems Group.14

5. Pioneering work: As a graduate student in the 1970s, he built the first wearable digital computer, which was used to predict roulette outcomes.15

6. Recent ventures: Farmer is currently the Chief Scientist at Macrocosm, a company he founded to apply complexity economics to climate change and green energy transition challenges.13

7. Education: He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Stanford University.3

Farmer has received several awards, including the Hertz Fellowship (1978), J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellowship (1983), and the Alexander von Humboldt Award (2011).23