Dr Simon Angus - Researcher Profile

Simon Angus

Address

Department of Economics
Building 11E, Clayton

Biography

Simon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and specialising in research and teaching complex systems science and its applications to economics.

Simon joined the Department of Economics, Monash University, as a Lecturer in 2008 after working for two years as a lecturer in in the School of Economics, UNSW. His PhD dissertation entitled, 'Economic Networks: Communication, Cooperation & Complexity' extended a game theoretic analysis of network formation, and agent behaviour on dynamic, ad-hoc networks. He has a keen interest in the Science of Complexity arising from his diverse background across science and engineering, which has so far resulted in research projects spanning cancer tumor modelling, genetic and phenotypic evolution, and a novel analysis of the welfare implications of corporation fraud. In 2004 Simon was selected as one of 10 doctoral students to attend theSanta Fe Institute (SFI) (NM, USA) Graduate Workshop on Computational Social Sciences and Complexity, and was again selected to return to SFI in 2007 to attend the month-long SFI Complex Systems Summer School. Simon has so far had his research published in leading journals in 5 fields, including physical & materials chemistry, theoretical biology, exercise physiology and educational technology.

Simon also has a strong interest in the scholarly approach to best-practice teaching and learning, having developed and implemented a novel lecture materials and delivery system based on the powerful LaTeX-Beamer system whilst teaching undergraduate courses at the UNSW. He was the joint 2008 winner (with Judith Watson) of the UNSW Australian School of Business, Faculty Teaching and Learning Award for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, an awardee of the 2009 Monash Faculty of Business and Economics Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2010 was awarded a VC's Citation for Excellence in Teaching, and then in 2011 was recognised by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council with a Citation for Outstanding teaching. He launched a new resource for Economics students, EconomicsNow! (http://www.econnow.com/) which features podcasts and articles on Economic Development, Climate Change and Economics thinking in general.

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Research & Supervision Interests

    Simon has a diverse research interest across multiple scientific domains due to his training and specialisation in complexity science. Largely he uses computational techniques to study biological, physical or social phenomena. He has worked on diverse complex systems applications such as self-organisation in polymer films, complex neural regulation of endurance pacing, cellular automata models of tumor progression, finite-state automata models of economic systems, and natural language processing of legal documents. Additionally he has a strong interest in networks and presently works with several co-authors on network economic or social problems. More recently, he has a large project underway to characterise the diffusion of of inventions during the industrial revolution.

Keywords

agent-based modelling, complexity, data-mining, economics of innovation, game theory, networks

Qualifications

PHD ECONOMICS
Institution: University Of NSW
Year awarded: 2007
B.SC (INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY)
Institution: University of NSW
Year awarded: 2002

Publications

Journal Articles

Angus, S., Waterhouse, B., 2011, Pacing strategy from high-frequency field data: More evidence for neural regulation?, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise [P], vol 43, issue 12, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia USA, pp. 2405-2411.

Piotrowska, M.J., Angus, S., 2009, A quantitative cellular automaton model of in vitro multicellular spheroid tumour growth, Journal Of Theoretical Biology [P], vol 258, issue 2, Academic Press, United Kingdom, pp. 165-178.

Angus, S., Watson, J., 2009, Does regular online testing enhance student learning in the numerical sciences? Robust evidence from a large data set, British Journal Of Educational Technology [P], vol 40, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 255-272.

Lord, H., Quinn, J., Angus, S., Whittaker, M., Davis, T., 2003, Microgel stars via Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) polymerisation - A facile route to macroporous membranes, honeycomb patterned thin films and inverse opal substrates , Journal Of Materials Chemistry [P], vol 13, issue 11, Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, pp. 2819-2824.

Conference Proceedings

Angus, S., Parris, B.W., Hassani Mahmooei, B., 2009, Climate change impacts and adaptation in Bangladesh: An agent-based approach, Proceedings of the 18th IMACS World Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 13 July 2009 to 17 July 2009, MSSANZ and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09, pp. 2720-2726.

Angus, S., Piotrowska, M.J., 2008, Towards a 3D cellular automaton model of multi-cellular spheroids, Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Application of Mathematics in Biology and Medicine, 17-20 September 2008, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 6-11.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The eff ect of information intermediaries on endogenous growth in developing economics: An agent based model simulation approach.
Supervisors:
Angus, S (Main), Rai, B (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Zhou, H.
Program of Study:
Evolutionary theory of division of labor: towards a more complete general equilibrium analytical framework of division of labor. (PHD) 2012.
Supervisors:
Shi, H (Main), Angus, S (Associate).