Doyne Farmer, PhD
Doyne Farmer, PhD, is a professor of mathematics and director of complexity economics for the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford.
Doyne was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative trading firm sold to the United Bank of Switzerland in 2006; he was their chief scientist from 1991–1999. During the eighties he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as an Oppenheimer Fellow and founded the Complex Systems Group.
Doyne began his career as part of the UC Santa Cruz Dynamical Systems Collective, a group of physics graduate students who did early research in what later was called “chaos theory”. During graduate school, Doyne, as a Hertz Fellow, led a group that designed and built the first wearable digital computers (which were used to beat the game of roulette).
Graduate Studies
Undergraduate Studies
Awards
2011, Humbolt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation