Neil F. Johnson
Physicist and complexity researcher
Neil F. Johnson is an English physicist who works on complexity theory and complex systems. He wrote the book Simply Complexity.
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British Born 1961 in Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
About Neil F. Johnson
Neil Fraser Johnson was born in 1961. His research in physics covers quantum information, econophysics and condensed matter physics. He has also studied how insurgent conflict and online extremism work as many-body systems. He has taught physics at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., and led its Complexity and Data Science initiative. He previously held a physics professorship at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received its 2018 Burton Award. In 1999 he presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, titled "Arrows of time", on BBC TV. He has authored over 300 research papers and supervised over 25 doctoral theses. His books include Simply Complexity and Financial Market Complexity.