Geoffrey West
President, Santa Fe Institute

Geoffrey West is the President and Distinguished Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a native of England and was educated at Cambridge University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, followed by post-doctoral appointments at Cornell and Harvard Universities. He returned to Stanford as a faculty member in 1970. He left to build and lead the Theoretical High Energy Physics Group at Los Alamos.

Geoffrey has numerous scientific publications, including the editing of three books. His primary interest has been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles and their interactions. His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena grew out of his work on scaling in quantum chromodynamics and the unification of all forces of nature. In 1996, this evolved into the highly productive collaboration with James Brown and Brian Enquist on the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology and the development of realistic quantitative models that analyze the influence of size on the structural and functional design of organisms.

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