t-co.re

Transdisciplinarity and Complexity Research

Excellence Chair funded by the AMIDEX Foundation of Aix-Marseille University

The Chair's Project

As Stephen Hawking remarked, “I think the next century will be the century of complexity.” This insight aligns with the growing need to navigate a world that resists simplification. As Italo Calvino observed, “On the one hand there is the attitude needed today to face the complexity of reality, refusing simplistic visions that only confirm our habits of representing the world, what we need today is the most detailed map of the labyrinth possible...” Together, these perspectives underscore the imperative to embrace complexity not as an obstacle, but as a defining feature of contemporary inquiry.

Transdisciplinarity and Complexity Research is an Excellence Chair funded by the AMIDEX Foundation of Aix-Marseille University. From the human brain to the global climate we find complex systems everywhere: living cells and microorganisms, economy and global supply chains, communication or transportation systems, cities, migrations, ecosystems and so on. Indeed, complexity as a research object and at the same time as a research perspective plays a prominent role in various sciences today, in addition to physics, for example, also in information theory, IA, climate science, sociology and economics. The chair explores the philosophical foundations and manifold applications of complexity science and the ways by which complexity science can inform our society in order to address the huge challenges facing our civilisation

Research team

Fausto Fraisopi
Fausto Fraisopi

Chair-holder

Erica Onnis
Erica Onnis

Guest Professor

Ahmed Benabadji
Ahmed Benabadji

PhD Researcher

Arantzazu Saraxtaga Arregi
Arantzazu Saraxtaga Arregi

Post-doc Researcher

Roberto Carlos Abrego Manriquez
Roberto Carlos Abrego Manriquez

Associate Phd Researcher

Benedikt Balschun
Benedikt Balschun

Associate Phd Researcher

Jeremy Attard
Jeremy Attard

Post-doc Researcher

Audrey Vermeulen
Audrey Vermeulen

Associate PhD

Pascal Taranto
Pascal Taranto

Budget execution manager

Julie Humeau
Julie Humeau

Administrator

Auguste Nsonsissa
Auguste Nsonsissa

Adjunct Professor

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2025
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23
2025

CSS French Local Chapter – Conference on Complex Systems

Published on 2025 May 30
by Team

As local Chapter of the international Complex Systems Society, we organise in Paris a Conference preparing the great Congress taking place between August and September 2025 in Siena

Speakers
Elsa Arcaute, Alain Barrat, Hugues Bersini, Yamir Moreno, Camille Roth, Flaminio Squazzoni, Elisa Thébault

Latest News

Published on 2025 June 2
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Call for applications

Junior Professor positions announced by the CNRS (https://carrieres.cnrs.fr/recrutement-postes-de-chaires/): ‘Dynamics and collective decisions’ at the interface between physics and social sciences, for which one of the possible laboratories is the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT): https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/CPJ-2025-022/Default.aspx?lang=FR The deadline for applications is...

Published on 2025 May 22
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Call for applications

phdfellowshipsThe Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille, joined with the AMIDEX Excellence Chair “ t-co.re@AMU ” – Transdisciplinarity and Complexity Research at Aix-Marseille University offer Two doctoral fellowships on the topic: ‘Epistemology of...

Published on 2025 May 22
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Call for applications

The Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille, joined with the AMIDEX Excellence Chair “t-co.re@AMU” – Transdisciplinarity and Complexity Research at Aix-Marseille University offer a full-time post-doctoral fellowship on the topic of Inter-/Transdisciplinarity of...

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