Dr. Rick Quax is an Assistant Professor in the Computational Science Lab of the University of Amsterdam and a Resident Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies. Furthermore, he is a board member of the Dutch Chapter of NetSci; a board member of the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena; and a member of the Netherlands Platform for Complex Systems. He is fascinated by the emergence of complex systemic behavior which arises from the interactions in a system. Examples include human cognition arising from neurons and synapses; cellular regulatory processes arising from proteins and RNA; flocking patterns arising from birds and fish; and societies arising from individuals. There is currently no universal method to understand or predict such complex, emergent behaviors. He is developing new methods based on information theory. He works on a wide variety of projects, including biomedicine, organized crime, in the hope of transferring knowledge across domains as well as identifying universalities in their emergent properties. His team’s activities include developing new theory; new software; and new data analyses.