Simon A. Levin Research Grants

Simon A. Levin has funding to foster research collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
I. Title: Training Project in Sustainability and Resiliency
Source of Support: Bill Miller III
Major Goals: To explore dynamics of complex adaptive systems, and apply to issues of sustainability
II. Title: Dynamics of Cooperation and Collective Intelligence in Stable and Changing Environments
Source of Support: Army Research Office
Major Goals: Development of understanding of collective intelligence, and application to coordination and cooperation
PIs: Naomi Leonard, (Princeton, MAE), Simon A. Levin
III. Title: Stockholm Resilience Centre Research Exchange Program
Source of Support: Princeton University Provost International Fund, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Major Goals: To provide travel funds for faculty and students to the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in support of the collaborative program with those institutions.
PI: Simon A. Levin
IV. Title: Expeditions: Collaborative Research: Global Pervasive Computational Epidemiology
Source of Support: National Science Foundation
Major Goals: To use innovative technological and scientific advancements to plan for, and respond to, epidemics and pandemics, including outbreaks of deadly novel viruses and even the common flu; to find ways to stop or mitigate outbreaks before they spread across the globe.
PIs: Simon A. Levin, Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia)
V. Title: Dialogues in Complexity
Source of Support: Arizona State University
Major Goals: To organize coupled small workshops at ASU and Princeton University on topics in complexity that will result in papers published in leading journals.
PI: Simon A. Levin
VI. Title: Applications of Complex Systems Thinking to Business and Society
Source of Support: Boston Consulting Group
Major Goals: Applying the lessons of complex systems thinking to business strategies, with special attention to climate change, pandemics and sustainability.
PIs: Simon A. Levin
VII. Title: Collaborative Research: Interactive Physiological Controls of Trait Expression, Nutrient Allocation, and the Elemental Stoichiometry of Synechococcus
Source of Support: National Science Foundation
Major Goals: To examine and model the physiological controls on trait expression, nutrient allocation and stoichiometry of the crucial Synechococcus species in marine environments.
PIs: Simon A. Levin, George Hagstrom
VIII. Title: Collaborative Research: IHBEM Data-Driven Multimodal Methods for Behavior-Based Epidemiological Modeling
Source of Support: National Science Foundation
Major Goals: Development of methods for using data to inform the incorporation of individual behaviors into epidemiological models.
PIs: Simon A. Levin, Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia)
IX. Title: Modeling-Based Approaches to a Science of Democracy Reform
Source of Support: Princeton Catalysis Initiative
Major Goals: To explore the effects of alternative voting systems on achieving democratic outcomes.
PIs: Samuel S.-H. Wang (Princeton, Neuroscience Institute), Simon A. Levin
X. Title: Data-driven multimodal methods for behavior-based epidemiological modeling,
Source of Support: NSF IHBEM
Major Goals: Modify epidemiological models to include human behavior.
PI: Simon A. Levin