Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Complex Systems and Networks

The Tertiary Education Commission recently announced funding of just under $210 million over six years for six Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs).

Dr Marcus Frean, from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University, will contribute as a Principal Investigator to one of the six centres - Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre for Complex Systems and Networks. While hosted by the University of Auckland, the Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre is a collaborative partnership with researchers from the universities of Victoria, Massey and Canterbury and Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.

Te Pūnaha Matatini's research programme brings together New Zealand's leading researchers in physics, economics, mathematics, biology, computer science, operations management, statistics, and social science to study complex systems and networks in the biosphere, the economy, and the marketplace.