Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V. (PIK) / The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), - Germany
Founded in 1992, PIK is a non-profit research institute addressing crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development (website: www.pikpotsdam.de). It is a member of the Leibniz Association with around 300 employees and a core funding of €8.6 million. Additional project funding from external sources amounted to €7.4 million. Data analysis, computer simulations and models are the basis for PIK's scientific excellence. In addtion to publishing results in scientific journals , PIK provides decision makers with sound information about climate change and novel concepts for sustainable development.
Main tasks in the project: PIK will act as coordinator of WP8 and therefore its staff will closely collaborate with leaders of WP2 and WP3 in order to Integrate the financial and macro ABMs into a single solid simulator. PIK will also put its effort in trying to develop new methods for validating economic agent based models. The institute will also be involved in the parameterization of key relationships in constructing the agent-based models.
Key PIK personnel working on this project:
J. Doyne FARMER, distinguished fellow
Ph.D. in Physics (University of California, Santa Cruz, 1981). He is currently distinguished fellow at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Change, and has been a professor at the Santa Fe Institute since 1999. His early work was in dynamical systems theory, time series analysis and prediction. He started the complex systems group at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1988, and then started and ran a highly successful hedge fund from 1991 – 1999. During the last eleven years he has worked on a variety of topics in theoretical and applied finance and has extensive experience working with agentbased and related computational systems.
Jürgen KURTHS, Chair of the Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods
Ph.D. in Physics. Chair of the Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; S-Professur "non-linear dynamics" at the Mathematic- Scientific Faculty I of the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Member of the steering committee of the new Network of Excellence BIOSIM (EU), Member of the Editorial Board of the following scientific
journals: Int.Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Springer-Series Synergetics; Int. Journal of Complex Systems Research; CHAOS.