Curriculum Vitae

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Professor of Statistics and Economics, Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences, Faculty of Communications and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
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Short Bio

David Lane was Professor(1976-1992) and Chairman of the Department of Theoretical Statistics (1989-1992) at the University of Minnesota. In 1992, he became Professor of Statistics in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Modena, of which he was Chairman (1998-2001).

From 2001, he is member of the Social Cognitive and Quantitative Science Department of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he currently serves (since 2003) as professor of economics. In addition, Lane is also a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has also served on the Science Board and the Editorial Board.

Lane's research has resulted in numerous articles in international journals on stochastic process theory, the foundations of statistics, epidemiology, causality assessment of adverse drug reactions, economy theory, economic sociology. In the past several years has been developing a theory of innovation, in collaboration with Robert Maxfield of Stanford University and the Santa Fe Institute.

From 2002-2006, Lane directed a European Commission project on the Information Society as a Complex System, in which participated scientists from Imperial College, the Sorbonne, and the Santa Fe Institute as well as the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Results from this research have been featured in Nature, Science and the Harvard Business Review, among other journals. The project led to a book "Complexity Perspectives on Innovation and Social Change," edited by Lane, Denise Pumain, Sander van der Leeuw and Geoffrey West, (Springer, 2009).

Among other awards, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986.