I am Assistant Professor in the Computational Science Lab of the University of Amsterdam and a Resident Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies. Furthermore I am a board member of the Dutch Chapter of NetSci; a board member of the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena; and a member of the Netherlands Platform for Complex Systems.

I am fascinated by the emergence of complex systemic behavior which arises from the interactions in a system. Examples include human cognition arising from neurons and synapses; cellular regulatory processes arising from proteins and RNA; flocking patterns arising from birds and fish; and societies arising from individuals. There is currently no universal method to understand or predict such complex, emergent behaviors.

I am developing new methods based on information theory. I work on a wide variety of projects, including biomedicine, organized crime, , in the hope of transferring knowledge across domains as well as identifying universalities in their emergent properties. My team's activities include developing new theory; new software; and new data analyses.