Postdoctoral research associate in Sergey Gavrilets' lab Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 e-mail ssadedin@utk.edu phone (865) 974-2411

Research interests

• Ecotype evolution. Visit the Littorina Project!
• Speciation and hybrid zones
• Ecological and evolutionary applications of complexity theory
• Cultural evolution
• Agent-based and cellular automata models
• Artificial life

Publications

• Briscoe, G., Sadedin, S. and Paperin, G. 2007. Ecology of applied digital ecosystems. Proceedings, IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference, Cairns, Australia.
• Green, D.G., Leishman, T.G. and Sadedin, S. 2007. The emergence of social consensus in Boolean networks. Proceedings, IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Green, D.G., Sadedin, S. and Leishman, T.G. 2007. Systems Theory - Self-Organization. To appear in S.E. Jørgensen, ed. Encyclopedia of Ecology, Elsevier.
• Green, D.G., Leishman, T.G. and Sadedin, S. 2006. The emergence of social consensus in simulation studies with Boolean networks. Proceedings, PAAA World Congress on Social Simulation, Kyoto, Japan.
• Leishman, T.G., Green, D.G., and Sadedin, S. 2006. Dual phase evolution: a mechanism for self-organization in complex systems. Interjournal Complex Systems, 1861. download
• Sadedin, S. 2006. Adaptation and self-organization in spatial models of speciation. Interjournal Complex Systems, 1632. download
• Sadedin, S. 2006. A simple model for the evolution of irreducible complexity. Technical report, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University. download
• Green, D.G. and Sadedin, S. 2005. Interactions matter: complexity in landscapes and ecosystems. Ecological Complexity 2, 117-130.
• Sadedin, S. 2005. Selection, space and diversity: What can biological speciation tell us about the evolution of modularity? Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3611, 1131-1144.
• Halley, J.D., Warden, A.C., Sadedin, S. and Li, W. 2004. Rapid self-organized criticality: Fractal evolution in extreme environments. Physical Review E, 036118.
• Sadedin, S., Dybiec, B., and Briscoe, G. 2003. A toy model of faith-based systems evolution. Physica A 323, 715-725. download
• Sadedin, S. and Littlejohn, M.J. 2003. A spatially explicit individual-based model of reinforcement in hybrid zones. Evolution 57, 962-970. download
• Sadedin, S., Dybiec, B., and Briscoe, G. 2002. Evolution of faith-based systems. In CSSS 2002 Students Papers, Santa Fe Institute.
• Sadedin, S. and Elgar, M.A. 1998. The influence of flock size and geometry on the scanning behaviour of spotted turtle doves, Streptopelia chinensis. Australian Journal of Ecology 23, 177-180.

• Green, D.G., Klomp, N.I., Rimmington, G.R. & Sadedin, S. 2006. Complexity in Landscape Ecology. Amsterdam: Springer-Verlag. Amazon

• Sadedin, S. 2004. Spatially explicit agent-based models of speciation by reinforcement and cultural evolution. Ph.D. Thesis, Monash University.
• Sadedin, S. 1999. An individual-based model of frog hybrid zone evolution, with implications for the reinforcement hypothesis. Honours thesis, Melbourne University.

History

• 2007 Postdoctoral research associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee.
• 2005 Research fellow, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University.
• 2004 Ph.D. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
• 1999 BA/BSc(Hons.) The University of Melbourne.

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