New and other events we partake in!
Positions:
Prospective MSc. I accept MSc students through the Computational Science and Complex Systems and Policy programs.Â
Prospective PhDs. PhD opportunities in the Netherlands occur mostly through projects, not through a PhD program or university scholarships. Exceptions are scholarships through external foundations that finance your PhD (which are categorized as external PhDs). I'm happy to discuss your application to a specific foundation that you have in mind.
Prospective Postdocs. Similar to PhD students, but with more external opportunities. I'm happy to discuss applications to grants like Veni (NWO), Marie SkĆodowska-Curie Actions, HFSP (focus on evolutionary theory), Schmidt Science Fellowships, or others, including with research stays.
CLOSED: PhD Position: Healthy Nutrition & Complex Systems Modeling (till Jun 23, 2025): https://lnkd.in/ddRkD9w6Â
CLOSED: Research Assistant/Lab manager (till 01/05/2025)
CLOSED: Web-based âthinking toolâ for public health policymakers in Amsterdam - Front-end Web Developer / Designer
CLOSED: Web-based âthinking toolâ for public health policymakers in Amsterdam - Back-end Developer / Data & AI Integrator
2026
2026/01 Santa Fe Institute Workshop: Navigating the space of collective transitions in biology and society (agenda)
02/01 Casper is interviewed live at BNR.nl on our latest paper. Ingrijpen maakt criminele netwerken soms juist sterker: âUitschakelen kopstukken niet genoegâ by Lotte van Coevorden.
2025
2025/12 Casper's paper highlighted in the UvA press. "Could police crackdowns actually help criminal networks?"
2025/12 Kyuri receives Bridge Grant (yrCSS) to support a collaboration with Dr. Constantino at Stanford University focused on exploring the complex dynamics of climate-related attitudes, behaviors, and policy support
2025/11 Awarded VIDI grant: ROOTS: Resilient outcomes from organic transitions in society . IvI celebration,
2025/11 Aspen Global Change Institute Workshop: Human behavior in global change models: Cross-disciplinary synthesis for future directions
2025/06 Kyuri Park receives grants from IMPS to support Kyuriâs participation in the 2025 IMPS conference in Minneapolis
2025/06 Lorentz Workshop: Collective Climate Action. Report. News Piece. Social Media.
2025/05 Interview on Digital Twins with newspiece on Dutch media (NL): "Een digitale tweeling van onze aarde De kaart kĂĄn nooit het gebied worden " by Sanne Bloemink. (https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-kaart-kan-nooit-het-gebied-worden)(auto translated EN)
2025 VĂtor is keynote at Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change
2025/03 Commentary on Casper's paper: The surprising resilience of criminal organizations: new insights from complexity scienceÂ
2025/03Â Meeting with Dutch Ministry of General Affairs
2025 VĂtor is keynote at Mathematics and Social Sciences Workshop (Colloque MathĂ©matiques et sciences sociales) - Institut d'Ă©tudes avancĂ©es de ParisÂ
2025/01/30 VĂtor gives online lecture at "Quantitative Ecology Program - Instituto Serrapilheira"Â
2024
2024 Interview about New program MSc Complex Systems and Policy (LinkedIn post)
2024 VĂtor presents at an inspiration session at PBL for "Integrating social dynamics in integrated assessment modeling"
2024 Vitor presents outcomes of ENLENS project with Dhruv and collaborator at Future of Energy Seminar Series  (ENLENS post)
2024 VĂtor and Casper are invited to present at the workshop on "Governing the commons" with researchers from the Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF) initiative in QUT, Australia. Â (thanks post, Casper's blog)
2024 VĂtor is a keynote at Systems Science Symposium - Systems Science Interest Group, Amsterdam Public Health, Health Behaviours and Chronic Diseases (FNWI LinkedIn post)
2024 News piece on "Combating polarisation with computer models" - Informatics Institute - University of Amsterdam (FNWI LinkedIn post)
2024 Dhruv gets a visiting student research associate internship at The Levin Lab at Princeton University (announcement)
2024 VĂtor and Casper do expert presentations at RIVM SummerSchool (Applied Complexity LinkedIn post, Casper's repo)
2024 Critical Transitions Workshop V - Earth Resilience and Sustainability InitiativeÂ
2023 Computational Social Complexity, Thematic Track @ ICCS 2023
2023 Keynote at Future of Mathematical Social Science WorkshopÂ
2021
2021 VĂtor V. Vasconcelos awarded Prize Bragança Gil âą News âą Portuguese Physics SocietyÂ
2021 News piece on Prize Bragança Gil | Faculdade de CiĂȘncias da Universidade de Lisboa
2021 DIEP Seminar: Coordination in polarised societies
Older favorites
2019 Understanding Political Economy of Deep DecarbonizationÂ
2019 Social Decisions Workshop 19Â
2018 Seminar in the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics - Princeton UniversityÂ
Outreach: Teaching at âThe Serrapilheira Training Program in Quantitative Ecologyâ to train young scientists studying at Brazilian institutions for world-class research on ecology using the quantitative methods of mathematics, physics, and computer science. Iâve taken part since 2023.
Media: Morgan Kelly (09-12-2021) Political polarization and its echo chambers: Surprising new, cross-disciplinary perspectives from Princeton. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2021/12/09/political-polarization-and-its-echo-chambers-surprising-new-cross-disciplinary
Blog: Vasconcelos, V. (08-12-2021). Clustering of diverse views harms opportunities for individual benefits [Web]. https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1073%25252Fpnas.2102153118/reader
Media: Preventing extreme polarization of political attitudes [Web] (06-01-2022) Science Magazine. Dynamics of Political Polarization Special Feature. https://scienmag.com/like-a-natural-system-democracy-faces-collapse-as-polarization-leads-to-loss-of-diversity/
Media: Open up space for the development of social physics (ćŒæ瀟äŒç©çćŠćć±ç©șéŽ) [Print] (17-12-2020) Chinese Social Science Today (Social Sciences in China Press). http://sscp.cssn.cn/xkpd/xszx/gj/202012/t20201216_5233413.html
Blog: Vasconcelos, V. (10-06-2020) Information revealed through overlap in coalition-structured governance. Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Portfolio
Outreach: âPartilhar futurosâ (sharing futures) project at Leal da CĂąmara high school. This ongoing program is aimed at high-school students who seek to understand possible paths to their academic and non-academic careers through examples of former students at this high school. I take part of it every year to the extent I am available.
Outreach: 2016 âModelling a complex worldâ â outreach talk at Geolectures (see Presentations). I was invited to Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Geography department) to give a talk to students of social sciences on the perspectives of modeling complex systems.
Media: News and Views by Tavoni, A. (2013). Building up cooperation. Nature Climate Change, 3(9), 782-783.
Media: Cooperação no combate a alteraçÔes climåticas mais fåcil com acordos locais, In RTP, SIC, Porto Canal, SAPO, by Lusa, February 2014 (rtp.pt).
Media: Aplicar castigos promove cooperação entre paĂses face as alteraçÔes do clima. In PĂșblico, by Ana Gerschenfeld, October 2013 (Press Review page)