The Wagensberg Award
Since 2019, the Jorge Wagensberg Award recognizes the best doctoral thesis in the field of complex systems science defended in Catalonia during the corresponding annual period. The award honors Jorge Wagensberg, a professor, researcher, and science communicator specializing in complex systems science. It is presented by the Catalan Association for the Study of Complex Systems (Complexitat.cat) during its annual event, Complexity Day, which brings together leading experts in this multidisciplinary science. Mathematicians, physicists, biologists, biomedical scientists, as well as anthropologists, economists, and professionals from various disciplines far removed from the pure sciences, gather to discuss current issues related to complex systems.| Year | Edition | Awardee | Institution | Thesis | Directors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | IV | Blai Vidiella Rocamora | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Terraforming Earth's Ecosystems: Engineering ecosystems to avoid anthropogenic tipping points |
R.Solé / J.Sardanyés / N.Conde |
| 2021-22 | III | Maria J. Palazzi (VEN) | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | Structural and dynamical interdependencias en complejos networks en meso- y macroscale: nestedness, modularity, and in-block nestedness |
A.Solé / J.Borge |
| 2020 | II | Leticia Galera-Laporta | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Dynamical aspectos de la regulación de bacterial proliferation |
Jordi García Ojalvo |
| 2019 | Y | Ricard Alert Zenon | Universitat de Barcelona | Fuerzas y flows en cells y tissues. Blebs, active gels and collective cell migration |
Jaume Casademunt |