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José Roberto Nicolás Carlock
Posdoctoral researcher
Affiliation: Complex Systems

Building : Marcos Moshinsky, 207
Phone: 5556225169 ext 2504

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Dr. José Roberto Nicolás Carlock specializes in studying natural and social phenomena from a complexity science perspective. He holds a PhD in physics from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico) for his work on fractal morphodynamics in nature. As a postdoctoral researcher, he has addressed the study of shell companies and corruption in public procurement in Mexico (Institute of Legal Research, UNAM) and the modeling of emergent properties of social systems (Institute of Physics, UNAM). His research work is published in internationally prestigious journals. He is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (Level 1).


Research Lines

  • Complexity approaches to corruption and violence
  • Structure and dynamics of social systems
  • Spatial networks and fractal growth

Knowledge Fields

  • Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary Topics

Knowledge Areas

  • Complex systems and biological physics
  • Interdisciplinary topics
  • Statistical physics and stochastic dynamics

Selected Articles

  • Nicolás Carlock, J.R., Boyer, D., Smith Aguilar, S.E. and Ramos Fernández, G., Strength of minority ties: the role of homophily and group composition in a weighted social network, Journal of Physics: Complexity, February 2024; 5(1), DOI: 10.1088/2632-072X/ad2720 [V], Link
  • Luna-Pla, I. and Nicolás-Carlock, J.R., Corruption and complexity: a scientific framework for the analysis of corruption networks, Applied Network Science, February 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s41109-020-00258-2 , Link
  • Nicolás-Carlock, J.R., Carrillo-Estrada, J.L. and Dossetti, V., Fractality à la carte: A general particle aggregation model, Scientific Reports, February 2016, DOI: 10.1038/srep19505 , Link

Latest Articles

  • Ramos-Fernandez, G., Smith Aguilar, S.E., Pietrangeli, E., Jasso-del Toro, C., Nicolás-Carlock J.R., Boyer, D., Pinacho-Guendulain, B., Montiel Castro, A., Aureli, F., Group identity without social interactions?, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2025; 48(e69), DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X24001146 , Link
  • Klein, B., Hartle, H., Shrestha, M, Zenteno, A.C., Barros-Sierra, D., Nicolas-Carlock, J.R., Bento, A.I., Althouse, B.M., Gutierrez, B., Escalera-Zamudio, M., Reyes-Sandoval, A., Pybus, O.G., Vespignani, A., Diaz-Quiñonez, J.A., Scarpino, S., Kraemer, M., Spatial scales of COVID-19 transmission in Mexico, PNAS Nexus, July 2024, DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae306 , Link
  • Nicolás Carlock, J.R., Boyer, D., Smith Aguilar, S.E. and Ramos Fernández, G., Strength of minority ties: the role of homophily and group composition in a weighted social network, Journal of Physics: Complexity, February 2024; 5(1), DOI: 10.1088/2632-072X/ad2720 [V], Link
  • Uriel Villanueva-Alcalá, José R Nicolás-Carlock, Denis Boyer, Diffusion limited aggregation, resetting and large deviations of Brownian motion, Molecular Physics, November 2023, DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2023.2276906 , Link
  • AC Flores-Ortega, JR Nicolás-Carlock, JL Carrillo-Estrada, Network efficiency of spatial systems with fractal morphology: a geometric graphs approach, Scientific Reports, October 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-45962-y , Link