Tim Johnson
Grace and Elmer Goudy Associate Professor of Public Management & Policy Analysis

- Department
- Atkinson Instructional
Bio
Tim Johnson uses laboratory experimentation, mathematical modeling, computer simulation, big-data analyses, and artificial intelligence to study how mechanisms such as equality, self-selection, and cyclicality determine the viability of cooperation. Johnson's work in this area has appeared in outlets ranging from Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA to The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and Chaos, Solitons & Fractals: X, among other outlets.
Tim holds a Bachelor’s degree from the R.D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and a PhD from Stanford University. Between his undergraduate and graduate studies, Tim served as a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute’s Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition.