Doctoral Training Centre

Welcome to the Complexity Science Doctoral Training Centre, a multi-disciplinary centre funded by EPSRC and RCUK, that provides training in Complexity Science research and offers a wide range of PhD projects.

We are training a new generation of complexity scientists at PhD level, teaching knowledge and skills to understand, control and design complex systems, and to do innovative research in complexity science via critical thinking, interdisciplinary teamwork and end-user interaction.

rudo_and_student Complexity Science focuses on systems of many interdependent components, showing Emergent behaviour at the system level, Self-organisation and/or Evolution. Our Centre draws on aspects of these in existing fields, including mathematics from dynamical systems and chaos, statistical inference, physics of phase transitions, self-assembly in chemistry, network modelling in biology and neuroscience, interacting agent modelling in economics and computer science. We also look to apply scientific methods in new fields of opportunity, such as transport, health and social science applications where mass quantitative data is newly available in this information age.

The Centre is led by a team of experienced Warwick professors, plus EPSRC and RCUK funding have enabled us to appoint six new academic staff directly associated with it. The University houses the DTC in a new dedicated Centre and it connects with a campus-wide association of research groups called the Complexity Complex.

Applicants should hope to obtain a first class degree in a scientific, mathematical or analytical subject, and you need some natural orientation towards modelling problems in quantitative mathematical terms.

Warwick also offers a Summer Programme in Scientific Research and Communication, suitable for students considering and/or preparing for research at Masters level.

MSc+PhDs

Funded places

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Mon 26 Mar '12

Lorenzo Pellis

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Lorenzo Pellis who has joined the Complexity Science Centre as a post-doctoral research fellow. Lorenzo will be working with Matt Keeling and Thomas House on epidemic models with waning immunity in structured populations. He joins us from Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial.

Tue 07 Feb '12

New Complexity Research Fellows

First Complexity Science PhD at Warwick