Research themes and structure

Our goal is to uncover the fundamental principles that underlie collective behaviour – in a range of organisms and across scales of organization – and to translate this knowledge into real-world solutions that will bring about positive impact worldwide. Our scholars from biology, physics, psychology, sociology, economics, computer science, and maths step beyond the comfort zones of their systems in order to work together to pursue this common goal. Breaking down barriers between subjects, species, and scales, our research revolutionizes the study of collective behaviour.

More specifically, our research seeks to quantitatively measure collective behaviour by considering the actions, traits, and states of individuals, the structures they form and in which they interact, as well as the environmental issues they are subjected to and create. Our approach will be to refract this larger goal through the prism of three structural elements: