Maya Paczuski
Academic
1963 –
Who is Maya Paczuski?
Maya Paczuski is the head and founder of the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary. She is a well-cited physicist whose work spans self-organized criticality, avalanche dynamics, earthquake, and complex networks. She was born in Israel in 1963, but grew up in the United States. Maya Paczuski received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. in 1986 and then went on to study with Mehran Kardar, earning her Ph.D in Condensed matter physics from the same institute.
Before founding the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary, she held appointments at numerous institutions around the world, most notably, M.I.T., Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Niels Bohr Institute, the University of Houston, NORDITA, Imperial College London, the von Neumann Institute for Computing at Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where she organized and ran the first complex systems and statistical physics program. Paczukski was married to the late Danish theoretical physicist Per Bak, with whom she has coauthored papers.
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- Born
- Apr 7, 1963
Tel Aviv - Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Canada
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on July 23, 2013
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