Marco Janssen

Marco Janssen is a Professor in the School of Sustainability and Director of the Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment (CBIE) at Arizona State University (ASU). He holds affiliated roles across multiple institutions including the Biosocial Complexity Initiative, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity (CSDC), and the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems. His work focuses on governance of shared resources (water, energy, critical minerals) through behavioral experiments, agent-based modeling, and case studies.

Education: PhD in Mathematics (Maastricht University, 1996) and MA in Econometrics (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1992). Research interests include social-ecological systems, collective action challenges, and institutional design. Active in open science initiatives to enhance accessibility of research and educational materials.

Key affiliations include the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and the Complex Adaptive Systems School. Grants funded by NSF and Sloan Foundation support projects on commons governance, cyberinfrastructure for modeling, and urban sustainability (e.g., ASU Project Cities).