Björn Birnir

Björn Birnir is a professor of mathematics and director of the Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research centers on nonlinear and stochastic modeling for complex dynamical systems, including mathematical seismology and geomorphology, erosion and landslides, statistical turbulence, nonlinear phenomena in quantum systems, migration of schools of fish, swarms of bacteria, angiogenesis, and global change.