About the lecturer:
Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist and one of the founders of the new field of historical social science called Cliodynamics. He is an Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, a Project Leader at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and a Research Associate in the School of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Trained as a theoretical biologist, he now works in the field of historical social science, where his research interests lie at the intersection of social and cultural evolution, historical macrosociology, economic history and cliometrics, mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the construction and analysis of historical databases.
Peter Turchin has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including a dozen in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He has also published eight books, including Historical Dynamics (2003), War and Peace and War (2005), Ultrasociety (2015), Ages of Discord (2016), End Times (2023), and The Great Holocene Transformation (2025). For more information see http://peterturchin.com/