Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Young Investigator Group Leader, CASUS-HZDR.

I am a complex-systems researcher interested in understanding the causes and consequences of emergent patterns and collective behaviors in living systems. In particular, how heterogeneity and stochasticity at the individual scale lead to emergent order at higher levels of organization, and how this order influences system-level robustness, resilience, and stability.

Appointments

• 2022 –Young Investigator Group Leader, CASUS-HZDR.
• 2022 –Affiliated Faculty, Princeton–CUNY Center for the Physics of Biological Function.
• 2019–22Simons-FAPESP Assistant Professor, Biological Physics, ICTP-SAIFR and São Paulo State University.
• 2019–22Simons Associate, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
• 2016–19Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.
• 2014–16Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.

Education

• 2014Ph.D. in Physics, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), Spain.
• 2011M.Sc. in Physics, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
• 2010Bachelor's in Physics, University of La Laguna, Spain.

Selected Honors & Awards

• 2023Junior Scientific Award of the Complex Systems Society.
• 2021Young Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
• 2016Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2014Montserrat Casas PhD Thesis Award in Sciences, Engineering and Architecture.
• 2013Banco Santander Award, Best PhD students at the University of the Balearic Islands.