Luis Bettencourt
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Institution | University of Chicago |
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Department | Ecology & Evolution |
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Address | Chicago IL 60637
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Overview I am a Professor of Ecology and Evolution and Associate Faculty in Sociology. I am also the Inaugural Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
My research investigates fundamental processes of biological and social organization and evolution in complex systems, with an emphasis on urban environments.
I create multidisciplinary theory and methods to deal with integrated concepts in these complex systems, often based on network structures and processes of learning and adaptation. My research seeks to explore new data and contexts that allow for quantitative comparisons among population through time and space in order to produce new insights and theory.
My work has contributed significantly to a new sense of excitement and possibility about urban science, unifying urban themes over space and time, and the convergence of ideas and methods for new insights across complex systems more generally.
I teach "Introduction to Urban Sciences" (ENST 24600) and "The Mathematics of Evolution" (BIOS 13141 1) at the University of Chicago.
Biography Imperial College , London, UK | PhD | 09/1996 | Theoretical Physics |
2018 - 2019 | Member at Large: Social, Political and Economic Sciences , American Association for the Advancement of Science | 2016 | Technology and the Future of Cities, Presidential Committee for the Advancement of Science and Technology | 2013 | Young Leader, World Cities Summit | 2000 - 2001 | Slansky Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory | 1998 - 2000 | Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Brelsford C, Martin T, Hand J, Bettencourt LMA. Toward cities without slums: Topology and the spatial evolution of neighborhoods. Sci Adv. 2018 08; 4(8):eaar4644. PMID: 30167459.
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Shutters ST, Lobo J, Muneepeerakul R, Strumsky D, Mellander C, Brachert M, Farinha T, Bettencourt LMA. Urban occupational structures as information networks: The effect on network density of increasing number of occupations. PLoS One. 2018; 13(5):e0196915. PMID: 29734354.
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Brelsford C, Lobo J, Hand J, Bettencourt LMA. Heterogeneity and scale of sustainable development in cities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 08 22; 114(34):8963-8968. PMID: 28461489.
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Youn H, Strumsky D, Bettencourt LM, Lobo J. Invention as a combinatorial process: evidence from US patents. J R Soc Interface. 2015 May 06; 12(106). PMID: 25904530.
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Ortman SG, Cabaniss AH, Sturm JO, Bettencourt LM. Settlement scaling and increasing returns in an ancient society. Sci Adv. 2015 Feb; 1(1):e1400066. PMID: 26601129.
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Schläpfer M, Bettencourt LM, Grauwin S, Raschke M, Claxton R, Smoreda Z, West GB, Ratti C. The scaling of human interactions with city size. J R Soc Interface. 2014 Sep 06; 11(98):20130789. PMID: 24990287.
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Bettencourt LM. The Uses of Big Data in Cities. Big Data. 2014 Mar; 2(1):12-22. PMID: 27447307.
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Bettencourt LM, Trancik JE, Kaur J. Determinants of the pace of global innovation in energy technologies. PLoS One. 2013; 8(10):e67864. PMID: 24155867.
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Bettencourt LM. The origins of scaling in cities. Science. 2013 Jun 21; 340(6139):1438-41. PMID: 23788793.
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Bettencourt LM, Kaur J. Evolution and structure of sustainability science. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 06; 108(49):19540-5. PMID: 22114186.
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Bettencourt L, West G. A unified theory of urban living. Nature. 2010 Oct 21; 467(7318):912-3. PMID: 20962823.
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Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Bettencourt L, Chute R, Rodriguez MA, Balakireva L. Clickstream data yields high-resolution maps of science. PLoS One. 2009; 4(3):e4803. PMID: 19277205.
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Bettencourt LM, Lobo J, Helbing D, Kühnert C, West GB. Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Apr 24; 104(17):7301-6. PMID: 17438298.
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2007 | 1 | 2009 | 1 | 2010 | 1 | 2011 | 1 | 2013 | 2 | 2014 | 2 | 2015 | 2 | 2017 | 1 | 2018 | 2 |
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