Prof. Marcel Ausloos
Email: marcel.ausloos@ulg.ac.be               Web site: www.ulg.ac.be/supras/groupe/Staff/ausloos.html

Dr. Marcel Ausloos (*1943) is Scientific Director of the SUPRAS group. His current research includes theoretical and applied statistical physics (transport properties, phase transitions, fractals, evolution, growth, econophysics), theoretical condensed matter physics (magnetism, superconductivity, optics) and nonlinear dynamical phenomena (self-organized criticality, extinctions and mutations in models of evolution, phase diagrams of generalized aggregation models, traffic). His total list of publication includes more than 340 publications often related to and including experimental and numerical work as well as practical applications of physical methods for economical data analysis. He has edited 5 books, directed 9 Ph.D. theses, and promoted many honor theses. He is a member of the European Physical Society; and chairman of the subcommittee on "Applications of Physics to Financial Analysis", Statistical Physics Division.

Selected key publications:

• N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos, "A toy model for life at the "edge of chaos"”, Comput. & Graphics 20, 921-923 (1996).
• N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos, "Inner Patterns and Front Propagation of a Dynamic Random Impurity Model", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 510-513 (1996)
• M. Ausloos, M. Kramer and N. Vandewalle, "Evolution on Trees: A brief review about the extinctions of species, and the case of genocide in a darwinistic Punctuated Equilibrium Evolution Model", Physica A 273, 33-45 (1999)
• M. Ausloos, "Empirical Analysis of Time Series", in "From Quanta to Societies", W. Klonowski, Ed. (Pabst, Lengerich, 2002) pp. 88-106
• M. Ausloos, P. Clippe and A. Pekalski, "Evolution of economic entities under heterogeneous political/environmental conditions within a Bak-Sneppen-like dynamics", Physica A 332 (2004) 394-402