Jordan’s research develops a multilevel science of human organization to understand how spatial dynamics shape inequality, economic opportunity, and demographic change across individuals, neighborhoods, and cities. Drawing on population ecology, statistical physics, information theory, and complex systems, he works to identify universal patterns in spatial sorting, growth, and redistribution that are obscured by conventional aggregation. He is interested how local processes of demographic and economic selection accumulate into neighborhood and metropolitan change, and how cities reorganize in response to shifting labor markets, infrastructure, and macroeconomic shocks. Ultimately, his work seeks to connect individual behavior and residential dynamics with large-scale social and economic transformation, providing a mechanistic framework for understanding urban inequality in a rapidly urbanizing world. Jordan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and an external fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Luís Bettencourt.