Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Where outstanding researchers bridge disciplines, scales and paradigms to unravel wicked problems

"The COVID-pandemic is a wake-up call for the world"

IAS Board of Trustees member Gabriela Ramos shares her vision on how a multidimensional, interdisciplinary, complex systems approach can help policymakers to build more resilient systems and achieve inclusive growth.

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Causality

Interdisciplinary discussion series on causality aimed at gaining acquaintance with causal problems, methods and assumptions in various academic fields.

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IAS community

The IAS is, above all, its people. The community includes e.g. research fellows, external faculty, working group members, researchers in residence and a small team of staff.

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Research

We use an integrated system's approach to study what kind of interventions will produce what type of outcome in complex challenges like health, the energy transition, and social inequality.

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Talent development, courses

We are committed to investing in the development of the next generation interdisciplinary researchers and actively engage young talent. Besides that, we are involved in various courses, including executive training.

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