Author: Anne Pawsey

EPL is delighted to announce the arrival of a new Editor in Chief Richard Blythe of the University of Edinburgh who will take up the role on 1st May 2024. Prof. Blythe takes over from Dr. Alessandra S. Lanotte, of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, CNR-NANOTEC, who acted as interim Editor in Chief for the first quarter of 2024. 

Richard Blythe holds a personal chair in complex systems at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He studied Physics at the University of Bristol, UK, participating in an exchange year at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, before pursuing a PhD in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics at Edinburgh. In his research, Richard builds models of complex interacting systems at the microscopic scale and applies both mathematical and computational tools to understand the collective phenomena that emerge. He has particular interests in transport and structure formation by model active particles, whose dynamics are inspired by the motion of bacteria and birds. He has also collaborated extensively with linguists on modelling human social dynamics and the process of language change, gaining insights into how social and cognitive interactions at the individual scale shape the collective properties of language at the population scale. Throughout his career, Richard has played key roles in bringing research communities together through a variety of activities including collaboration networks, workshops and summer schools.

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