1. Nigel Gilbert is the founder and director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, author of several books on computational social science, social simulation and social research and past editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, the leading journal in the field.
Nigel Gilbert was a lecturer at the University of York and then joined the University of Surrey where he became a professor in the Department of Sociology in 1991.
Nigel Gilbert served as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey and he is the current Director of its Institute of Advanced Studies.
Nigel Gilbert served as a member of the Council of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Nigel Gilbert developed a prototype, which was taken up by both the then Department of Health and Social Security and Citizens Advice Bureaux, and which was the forerunner of the systems nowadays routinely used in advice centres.
Nigel Gilbert is one of the founders of modern computational sociology, a discipline that merges social science research with simulation techniques with the goal of modelling complex policy issues and fundamental aspects of human societies.
Nigel Gilbert's first work in this area was a project on modelling the emergence of organised society in prehistoric France, with Jim Doran.
Nigel Gilbert is founding editor of Social Research Update, a quarterly publication of the University of Surrey.
Nigel Gilbert was a member of the Sociology sub-panel for the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises.
Nigel Gilbert was a member of the European Commission's Advisory Group for the Future and Emerging Technologies programme from 2013 to 2018.
Nigel Gilbert was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by the University of Cambridge in 2003.
Nigel Gilbert is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences.
Nigel Gilbert was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to engineering and the social sciences.