doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date residence article_title name alma_mater
mehran kardar tel-aviv , israel united states of america physics university of calgary april 7 , 1963 canada maya paczuski
 maya paczuski massachusetts institute of technology
maya paczuski

maya paczuski is the head and founder of the complexity science group at the university of calgary .
she is a well-cited physicist whose work spans self-organized criticality , avalanche dynamics , earthquake , and complex networks .
she was born in israel in 1963 , but grew up in the united states .
maya paczuski received a b.s. and m.s. in electrical engineering and computer science from m.i.t. in 1986 and then went on to study with mehran kardar , earning her ph.d in condensed matter physics from the same institute .
before founding the complexity science group at the university of calgary , she held appointments at numerous institutions around the world , most notably , m.i.t. , brookhaven national laboratory , the niels bohr institute -lrb- copenhagen , denmark -rrb- , the university of houston , nordita -lrb- copenhagen , denmark -rrb- , imperial college london , the von neumann institute for computing at forschungszentrum jülich , and the perimeter institute for theoretical physics , where she organized and ran the first complex systems and statistical physics program .
paczukski was married to the late danish theoretical physicist per bak , with whom she has coauthored papers .
