About Wout

I’m a methodologist at Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek) and theoretical physicist at the Institute of Physics and the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (UvA) and the Department of Mathematics (VU). My research interests are statistical mechanics of complex systems, hydrodynamics of social-economic systems, network science, and stochastic modeling.

An important part of my research revolves around building bridges between different scientific disciplines. This manifests itself practically through the importation of numerical and theoretical methods from theoretical physics to model of complex systems. I’m currently involved in a research project using hydrodynamical models of socioeconomic phenomena such as segregation, polarization and inequality. This is a joint effort of CBS, UvA, VU and DIEP, made possible through the NWA OCP programme “Emergence at all scales”