Denis Tverskoi

Dr. Tverskoi's primary interests are in the study of complex social and socio-biological systems, with a particular focus on human behavior in different contexts. Human behavior can be treated as the product of complex processes driven by ecological, social, psychological and cultural forces, and a deep understanding of behavior is essential to addressing numerous societal challenges, including climate change, pandemics, growing inequality, political polarization, misinformation, violence and social, economic and political crises. Dr. Tverskoi builds mathematical models to understand key ecological, material, cognitive, social and cultural factors affecting human behavior and tests these models on real data and try to make predictions and recommendations for policymakers that can contribute to fostering sustainability, efficiency, diversity and equity. He also builds evolutionary models to explain what kind of selective pressures shaped the evolution of behavioral patterns.

• Mathematical and computational modeling
• Human behavior
• Coupled human–environment systems
• Social norms and social institutions
• Social and cultural evolution

• PhD, Applied Mathematics, National Research University Higher School of Economics
• BSc, Economics and Finance, National Research University Higher School of Economics