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Ricard Solé is Doctor of Physics by the Polytechnic University of Catalunya and is currently a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he directs the Laboratory of Complex Systems. His investigations in this field cover from ecological theory to the study of social networks and of systems as complex as traffic and the internet. He is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a Senior member of the Center for Astrobiology, associated to the NASA, and of the European Complex Systems Society. In 2003, his investigations in collaboration with Ramón Ferrer won the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize for Scientific Investigation for the work “Least effort and the origins of scalling in human language”, published in 2003 by the prestigious American magazine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His studies have been published in newspapers such as The New York Times, and he is the author or six recognized scientific essays.