Peter Turchin
Russian-American scientist · peterturchin.com
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Peter Valentinovich Turchin is a Russian-American complexity scientist, specializing in an area of study he and his colleagues developed called cliodynamics—mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies. Wikipedia
Born: 1957 (age 66 years), Obninsk, Russia
Parents: Valentin Turchin
Affiliation: University of Connecticut
Research interests: Cultural Evolution, Social Evolution, Cliodynamics, and more
Alma mater: New York University, Duke University
Thesis: The effect of host-plant dispersion on movement of Mexican bean beetles (Epilachna varivestis) (1985)