My name is Lucas Lacasa Saiz de Arce.
I received a BSc in Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) back in 2004 and a MSc and PhD in Physics of Complex Systems at Universidad Politénica de Madrid (UPM) in 2006 and 2009 respectively. After finishing my PhD (which was realized at the dept. of Applied Mathematics (UPM) under the supervision of Dr. Bartolo Luque), I spent some months in the Brazilean Center for Physics Research (dept of Theoretical Physics) working with Prof. EMF Curado and a nice month in the Santa Fe Institute, as a fellow of the CSSS '09. I'm currently working at the Center for Mathematical Research (CRM) placed in Barcelona, Spain.
My main interests surround the foundations of Complexity Science. I've been exploring the onset of emergent complex structures in different contexts as physical, number theoretical, algorithmic, socio-economical or ecological systems, by means of analytical and numerical techniques borrowed from Statistical physics, Dynamical Systems or Graph theory (Complex Networks). I am particularly interested in the interplay between geometrical arguments (i.e. symmetry principles) and physical principles, and how they gather and work together in physical, 'purely mathematical' or living complex systems.
