Biography
Max Bechthold is a second year PhD student at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. He is also a visiting student at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He wants to explore how complexity-economics methods can be embedded in human-Earth modelling frameworks and how path-based resilience measures may be applied to complex economic models.
His research interests include: complex systems, non-linear dynamics, multilayer networks, agent based models, social-ecological systems, feedback loops, social norms, social groups and social tipping, (world-) earth system resilience and tipping.