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Celian Colon

Peter E. DeJanosi Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Capacity Development and Academic Training Unit

Peter E. DeJanosi Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group

Advancing Systems Analysis Program

Biography

Celian Colon is a research scholar in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. His research focuses on modeling systemic risks, disruption cascades, and tipping points in ecological and economic systems, utilizing system dynamics, agent-based modeling, and complex networks.

One of his main contributions is the development of the DisruptSC model, which analyzes the criticality of transport networks and supply chains to extreme events. The World Bank has applied this to various countries.

He completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics under Prof. Michael Ghil at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, in 2017, with a thesis titled, Modeling Economic Resilience. He also holds a master’s degree in environmental technology and policy from Imperial College London, which he acquired in 2011. Prior to this, in 2010, he graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, a multidisciplinary engineering school in Paris.


Last update: 08 APR 2025