Stochastic Chemical Kinetics

Péter Érdi, born in Budapest, is a senior computational scientist appointed as Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, since 2002. There, he teaches interdisciplinary classes in physics, psychology, computer science, and mathematics. He is also a research professor at the Department of Computational Sciences, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary. Member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (2012-2020), and Vice President of Membership of the Same Society in 2017-2018, in 2015-2019, Péter was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Cognitive Systems Research", published by Elsevier. Editorial Board Member of the Journal BioSystems (Elsevier), and of the Springer book series "Springer Series in Synergetics" and "Understanding Complex Systems", he has hold about 200 invited lectures in the overlapping areas of computational, cognitive, and social sciences, in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. He is also the founding director of the Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, a study abroad program established in 2003, which takes international students to Budapest for one semester. Author of some reputable and well-known books, such as Complexity Explained (Springer, 2008) and Stochastic Chemical Kinetics - Theory and (Mostly) Systems Biological Applications (with Gábor Lente, Springer, 2014), he recently published Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play (Oxford University Press, 2020), which has been translated into Chinese, German, Hungarian, Japanese, and Korean, and Repair: When and How to Improve Broken Objects, Ourselves, and Our Society (with Zsuzsa Szvetelszky, Springer, 2022).