Keynote Speakers

1^st keynote speaker

Prof. Dr. Thomas Lux
Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Chair of Monetary Economics and International Finance

Thomas Lux is professor of Monetary Economics and International Finance at the Department of Economics in Kiel. He has published widely on artificial financial markets and empirical validation of such models. Publication include research on agent-based models, like “Heterogeneous Interacting Agents in Financial Markets”.

Thomas Lux is Founding Editor of the Journal of Economic Interaction and Cooperation (starting in 2006) and member of Editorial Board of the journals Quantitative Finance, Economic Behavior and Organization and New Mathematics and Natural Computation. Besides, he is referee of several scientific journals including the fields of finance, computer science and economics. Examples are the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Computational Economics, Empirical Economics and the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

Further information can be found on Thomas Lux’ homepage.

2^nd keynote speaker

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Brenner
Philipps University Marburg, Economic Geography and Location Research

Thomas Brenner is professor for Economic Geography and Location Research at the Department of Geography in Marburg. He has published in the field of Simulation methodology, Emergence of local clusters, Learning processes and cognitive behavior and other research topics, e.g. the chapter Agent learning representations in the Handbook of Computational Economics, Vol. 2.

Thomas Brenner holds a Diploma and Ph.D. in Physics and a Ph.D. and Habilitation in Economics.

Further information can be found on Thomas Brenner’s homepage.