Very recently, the Nobel prize was awarded to Giorgio Parisi for research in complex systems, “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”.

Does this extraordinary nobilitation of all researchers in complex systems leave us with no more questions to ask or to answer? Or is this an additional stimulus to continue research into what makes physical systems complex – in particular living physical systems?
I will briefly introduce myself in the context of complex systems research with particular focus on biomedical applications. Multiscale aspects of complexity form the central part of my work. Systems of interacting units often lead to such complexity, which in the realm of biological physics could be captured by the specific focus on Network Biophysics. From this perspective, I will present an overview of the ongoing and planned research directions of the Modelling & Simulation Lab at Sano.