Nigel Gilbert Scientist

Nigel Gilbert FAcSS (born 21 March 1950) is a British sociologist and a pioneer in the use of agent-based models in the social sciences. He is the founder and director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation (University of Surrey), author of several books on computational social sciences, social simulation and social research and editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), the leading journal in the field.

Personal facts

Nigel Gilbert
Birth dateMarch 21, 1950
Birth nameGeoffrey Nigel Gilbert
Nationality
United Kingdom
Residence
United Kingdom , Guildford
Education
University of Cambridge
Known for
Social simulation
Agent-based model

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Scientist

awards
Doctor of Science
Royal Academy of Engineering
FBCS
List of Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
Academy of Social Sciences
doctoral advisor
Mike Mulkay
Field of study
Computational sociology
Sociology of scientific knowledge
Complex systems

Topical connections

Alan BundyScientist
Alan Simon CrowcroftPolitician
Alan W. BishopScientist
David BlanchflowerPolitician

Nigel Gilbert on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/web/home
  2. http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk
  3. http://www.epress.ac.uk
  4. http://www.essa.eu.org
  5. http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/staff/ngilbert
  6. https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=simsoc