Paul E. Smaldino

Paul E. Smaldino is an associate professor of cognitive and information sciences and faculty in the Quantitative and Systems Biology graduate program at the University of California, Merced. He is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a research affiliate at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Much of his work involves building and analyzing mathematical models and computer simulations to study how behaviors emerge and evolve in response to social, cultural, and ecological pressures, as well as how those pressures can themselves evolve.