CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Joshua M. Epstein
Senior Fellow
Economic Studies Program
Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
jepstein@brookings.edu
202-797-6040
PRIMARY RESEARCH INTEREST: Modeling complex social and biomedical processes
using nonlinear dynamical systems and agent-based computational methods.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution
• Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Economic Studies Program, 1996-present;
Foreign Policy Studies Program, 1987-1996
• Member, External Faculty, The Santa Fe Institute
• External Research Professor, The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason
University
• Member, National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Committee on Advances
in Technology and the Prevention of their Applications to Next Generation Biowarfare
Threats
• Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Network Science
• Member, The New York Academy of Sciences
• Member, The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Economic Inequality and
Social Interactions
• Book Series Editor, The Princeton Studies in Complexity, Princeton University Press
• Editorial Board, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
• Editorial Board, Complexity
• Associate Editor, Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer-Verlag
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• Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute 1992 Complex Systems Summer School
• Visiting Lecturer, the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (1983-93)
• Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University (1989-90)
• Research Associate, Brookings (1985-87)
• Rockefeller Foundation International Relations Fellow in residence as a Guest Scholar at
The Brookings Institution (10/83- 1/85)
• Council on Foreign Relations Inter