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This book aims at providing a unifying framework, based on Information Entropy and its maximization, to connect the phenomenology of evolutionary biology, community ecology, financial economics, and statistical physics. This more comprehensive view, besides providing further insight into problems, enables problem-solving strategies by applying proven methods in one discipline to formally similar problems in other areas. The book also proposes a forecasting method for important practical problems in these disciplines and is directed to researchers, students and practitioners working on modelling the dynamics of complex systems.

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I am Professor at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the Republic University (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Head of the Complex System Group. 

 

I earned my PhD in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1994. In the next years I conducted research on quantum field theory.

 

Since 2001 my scientific interests evolved from theoretical physics to COMPLEX SYSTEMS and mathematical modeling applied to problems in ecology & evolution, evolutionary economics & econophysics, and agricultural sciences

CURRENT RESEARCH

 I am currently working on:  

1. Evolutionary economics.  Methods to explain and forecast firm dynamics and market concentration.

2. Ecological networks.

3.  Niche Construction and Niche Engineering.  The idea is to extend the classical  competition niche theory to include, in addition to competition, positive or cooperative interspecific interactions via game theory. The offspring of this marriage between classical niche and game theories is Lotka-Volterra Niche Game Theory (LVNGT).

LVNGT has applications in big problems like the evolution of cooperation from purely self-interested agents to niche construction and niche engineering.

ombining Niche and Game Theories as a new approach to
 

4. Early warnings of catastrophic shifts. E.g. desertification, eutrophication, shifts in tropical forests.

5. Evolution of microbes in real time RNA viral dynamics, like COVID-19 (see recent model explaining the rise of ALPHA variant in many countries) and e.coli in the Long Term Evolutionary Experiment (LTEE).


6. Crop mixtures for overyielding.


7. Precision livestock farming.

 

PROJECTS & LATEST RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY & AGRICULTURE SCIENCES

I am currently involved in different projects covering from agronomic science (crop mixtures for overyielding, scientific or precision livestock production) to ecology (early warnings of catastrophic shifts, population dynamics, biodiversity patterns and conservation) and from evolution (quasispecies theory for RNA viral dynamics, e.coli evolutionary experiments) to game theory (the evolution of cooperation among self interested agents).

 

 

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