Who We Are
 George Sugihara, Ph.D.
Dr. Sugihara (Ph.D., Princeton University) is a theoretician who has worked across a diverse variety of fields including algebraic topology, algal physiology and paleoecology; more recently, ecology, neurobiology, atmospheric science, and finance. His research interests include complexity theory, nonlinear dynamics, food-web structure, species abundance patterns, conservation biology/ biological control, and empirical climate modeling.
One of his most interdisciplinary contributions involves the work he developed with Lord Robert May concerning methods for forecasting nonlinear and chaotic systems. This took him into the arena of investment banking, where he took a 5-year leave from academe to become Managing Director for Deutsche Bank. There he made a successful application of these theoretical methods to forecast erratic market behavior.
A former holder of the John Dove Isaacs Chair of Natural Philosophy at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, Dr. Sugihara is also the recipient of various international awards, and is currently a Professor at Scripps and an Associate at the Neurosciences Research Institute. Recently he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.
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