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I study the behaviour of natural complex systems. Complex systems are anything consisting of many individual units, each acting on its own, with no centralised control of the collective. The thousands of tiny interactions between the individuals leads to sophisticated ’emergent’ behaviour at the group level, such as solving mazes and trade-offs, seemingly telepathic group movements or self-assembled structures. I spend my time figuring out the mechanisms and simple behavioural rules that individuals use to gain the benefits of emergent collective behaviour, and working out ways we can implement those rules in human systems.
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Earth & Environmental Sciences
Formicidae
Agriculture & Biology
Ants
Medicine & Life Sciences
Linepithema humile
Agriculture & Biology
Iridomyrmex purpureus
Agriculture & Biology
slime mould
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Physarum polycephalum
Agriculture & Biology
meat
Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Projects 2016 2022
Ant inspired rules for self-assembly in swarm robotics and complex systems
1/05/19 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
A new understanding of complex systems through study of self-assembled swarm architecture in ants
30/06/17 → …
Project: Research
No-brainer: Cognitive-like behaviors in a unicellular slime mold
Reid, C., Garnier, S. & Weber, G.
1/07/16 → …
Project: Research
Navigational and neuroethological aspects of cooperative transport in weaver ants
Burchill, A., Reid, C. & Pratt, S.
14/06/18 → 14/12/18
Project: Research
Research Outputs 2011 2019
If you plant it, they will come: quantifying attractiveness of exotic plants for winter-active flower visitors in community gardens
Tasker, P., Reid, C., Young, A. D., Threlfall, C. G. & Latty, T., 13 Dec 2019, In : Urban Ecosystems.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
social attraction
garden
flower
winter
community
Information transfer during food choice in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum
Ray, S. K., Valentini, G., Shah, P., Haque, A., Reid, C. R., Weber, G. F. & Garnier, S., 19 Mar 2019, In : Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7, MAR, p. 1-11 11 p., 67.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
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slime mould
Physarum polycephalum
information exchange
food choices
molds (fungi)
Route selection but not trail clearing are influenced by detour length in the Australian meat ants
Luo, D., Reid, C. R., Makinson, J. C., Beekman, M. & Latty, T., Feb 2019, In : Insectes Sociaux. 66, 1, p. 47–56 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
lawns and turf
meat
ant
Formicidae
travel
Slimes in the city: the diversity of myxomycetes from inner-city and semi-urban parks in Sydney, Australia
Hosokawa, A., Reid, C. R. & Latty, T., Jun 2019, In : Fungal Ecology. 39, p. 37-44 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Myxogastrea
protist
substrate
urbanization
slime mould
Temporal and spatial pattern of trail clearing in the Australian meat ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus
Middleton, E. J. T., Garnier, S., Latty, T. & Reid, C. R., 1 Apr 2019, In : Animal Behaviour. 150, p. 97-111 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Iridomyrmex purpureus
meat
ant
Formicidae
travel
Prizes
Macquarie University Early Career Researcher of the Year
Christopher Reid (Recipient), 1 Nov 2017
Prize
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medicine
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