Agent Based Models, Bounded Rationality, Ecological Rationality, Genetic Algorithms, Classifier Systems, Macroeconomic Models

Applying agent-based models to archaeological data, using modern ethnoarchaeological data as an analog for behavior.

Exhaustible natural resources
Fishery resources
Network game theory models
Agent-based models

Agent based modelling in water management, especially focused in extreme phenomena such floods and droughts.

I study human culture and cooperation in relationship to the environment. In particular, I study how social norms, institutions and societies evolve, and how they are influenced by ecological and social forces. I strive to use this research to learn how to better build durable, sustainable and just institutions and societies. I use experimental economics and agent-based modeling to explore these connections, and work with lot of wonderful people.