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

Educational inequality, higher education

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

Social interaction leading to the adoption better eating habits by households at all income levels

Existential crises’ solutions.

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.

Direction of the Vector-Borne Disease Network (www.vecnet.org), an international research consortium developing modeling tools that support the development of new strategies to eliminate malaria.

I am investigating the use of machine learning techniques in non-stationary modeling environments to better reproduce aspects of human learning and decision-making in human-natural system simulations.