Doyne Farmer, PhD

Doyne Farmer, PhD, is director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. He is also External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Chief Scientist at Macrocosm.

His current research is in economics, including agent-based modeling, financial instability and technological progress. He was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative automated trading firm that was sold to the United Bank of Switzerland in 2006. During the eighties he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an Oppenheimer Fellow and founded the Complex Systems Group.

Doyne began his career as part of the UC Santa Cruz Dynamical Systems Collective, a group of physics graduate students who did early research in what later was called “chaos theory”. During graduate school, Doyne, as a Hertz Fellow, led a group that designed and built the first wearable digital computers (which were used to beat the game of roulette).