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Sabbatical Visitor


The Santa Fe Institute maintains a vibrant and interactive Sabbatical program, reserved primarily for members of the SFI External Faculty. Under exceptional recommendations from the faculty, SFI is willing to consider sabbatical applications from non-SFI affiliated researchers.

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Alan Hurd

Former Director of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tim Kohler

Science Board, External Professor

Regents Professor, Washington State University, Anthropology

Alan Hurd

At Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hurd is the former Director of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANSCE.  Prior to coming to Los Alamos in 2001, he managed various materials research areas at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque and, before joining Sandia in 1984, he was a postdoc studying liquid and colloidal crystals under Buckley Prize Winner Bob Meyer at Brandeis University.  He taught physics at Brandeis and is an Adjunct Professor of physics at the University of New Mexico.

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Tim Kohler

Science Board, External Professor

Regents Professor, Washington State University, Anthropology

Tim received his A.B. from New College of Sarasota, Florida in 1972 and his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida in 1978. Except for brief interludes in Avignon, France, as a Northwestern Interinstitutional Council for Study Abroad professor in 1983, and in Calgary, Alberta, as a Fulbright-University of Calgary Distinguished Chair in North American Studies in 1999, his academic career to date has been at Washington State University (WSU), Pullman. He currently directs the "Village Ecodynamics" NSF Biocomplexity project and a joint WSU/University of Washington IGERT called IPEM (IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling). He uses agent-based and systems-level models as aids in calibrating interpretations of what happened in prehistory, with emphasis on the US Southwest, where he is a Research Associate at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.

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