Vrije Universiteit Brussel

You know, so it, it was really by accident.

I had done my medical training in Belgium at the Free University of Brussels for seven years, uh, between 1977, 1984.

I came back and became a board-certified internist, uh, working through the Mount Sinai system in New York City in the city hospitals, and I thought I would be like a country doc.

Like, I would move upstate a few hours, close enough to visit my parents, who are in Bayside and Whitestone, Queens.

It's very multicultural and I really like it.

And in 2019, I worked with the VUB.

I started to do research around the radicalization.

But I didn't... finished that phd but because you know i've also family kids you know you cannot do everything but i learned a lot and i interviewed a lot of young people in olympic between 18 and 24 and they learned me a lot about what's life in olympic what's radicalization what is fate what is But you know, the thing I learned the most is that there is still hope.

These cells are dormant in the caterpillar, but at a critical point of development, they create the new form and structure, which becomes the butterfly.

[outro music] My guest today is my very old friend, uh, Dr. Vasileios Basios, who's a senior researcher in the physics of complex systems at the University of Brussels with over 25 years of experience in research and coaching.

His interdisciplinary work focuses on self-organization, emergence in complex matter, complementarity, and the foundations of complex systems.

He was mentored by Nobel laureates Ilya Prigogine and Gregor Nicolis, and he received his PhD from the University of Brussels after studying cybernetics with John S. Nicholas.

His research interests include foundations of complexity science, emergence in complex matter, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos in biological information processing, computability, and the logic of extended Bayesian inference.

He's participated in several research initiatives, including European Space Agency's Complex Matter Program and EU projects such as Pythagoras I and II and Thales I and II.

Yeah, Pim Koskis and other people.

I mean, I think he was back at Brussels back then, Brussels University.

I met Pim at the VU, actually.

We were master's students there, roughly overlapping.

Welcome to Strategy Speaks, the official podcast of the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, the VUB.

I'm Daniel Fiat and I'm the host of this 25th episode.

of Strategy Speaks.