Background
She was born in Israel in 1963, but grew up in the United States.
She was born in Israel in 1963, but grew up in the United States.
Maya Paczuski received a Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Surgery in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and then went on to study with Mehran Kardar, earning her Doctor of Philosophy in Condensed matter physics from the same institute.
She is a well-cited physicist whose work spans self-organized criticality, avalanche dynamics, earthquake, and complex networks. Before founding the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary, she held appointments at numerous institutions around the world, most notably, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark), the University of Houston, NORDITA (Copenhagen, Denmark), Imperial College London, the von Neumann Institute for Computing at Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where she organized and ran the first complex systems and statistical physics program Paczuski was married to the late Danish theoretical physicist Per Bak, with whom she has coauthored papers.
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