Biography
**Dr.dr. Peter Marks is an associate professor at the Department of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam.** Peter Marks studied economics and philosophy of economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His Ph.D. focused on an alternative explanatory model in game theory. He is member of the Governance & Pluralism team. His theoretical focus is on the development and application of complexity sciences in researching public decision making processes, e.g. the decision making processes of the High Speed Train system in the Netherlands since 1993. This resulted in a second Ph.D. that focussed on Understanding Collective Decision-making based on a complex systems informed fitness landscape perspective. Lately, he started appying complex systemic action research to help community iniatives and/or municipal governments to create public values.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Associate professor | Governance and Pluralism
- marks@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Peter Marks & Wouter Spekkink (2025) - Activity Systems Modelling as a Complex Systemic Approach to Develop Learning Partnerships Between Community Initiatives and Municipal Governments - Systems Research and Behavioral Science - doi: 10.1002/sres.3200
- Sofia Pagliarin & Peter Marks (2025) - Airports’ environmental effects and limits to growth: an integrated framework - Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 27 (4), 446-462 - doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2025.2468271 - [link]
- David Vaandrager & Peter Marks (2024) - Nabuurschap, duurzaam wonen en zorg Noord-Schiebroek: Het beeld van de zorgprofessionals van Schiebroek
- Peter Marks & David Vaandrager (2024) - Nabuurschap, duurzaam wonen en zorg Noord-Schiebroek: Bewonersperspectief
- David Vaandrager & Peter Marks (2023) - Uitkomsten inspiratiesessie
- Wouter Spekkink & Peter Marks (2023) - Bouwen aan een lerend partnerschap
- David Vaandrager & Peter Marks (2023) - Factsheet: Nabuurschap, duurzaam wonen en zorg Schiebroek
- Lasse Gerrits, Peter K. Marks, Sofia Pagliarin & Ward Rauws (2022) - Strategic archetypes of planning processes: Model and evidence - Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 49 (9), 2516-2530 - doi: 10.1177/23998083221098746 - [link]
- Lasse Gerrits & Peter Marks (2022) - Learn and adapt, or perish: The case of the F35 lightning II - Administration and Society, 54 (7), 1357-1378 - doi: 10.1177/00953997221098776 - [link]
- Peter Marks (2022) - Continuing professional learning - doi: 10.4337/9781800375697 - [link]
- David Vaandrager & Peter Marks (2022) - Disclosing public values: Citizens’ perspectives based on group model building - Public Performance and Management Review, 45 (2), 282-307 - doi: 10.1080/15309576.2022.2034655 - [link]
- Peter Marks & M Knassmüller (2021) - Bouncing around in a turbulent teaching environment: Teaching and researching resilience for public administration - Teaching Public Administration - doi: 10.1177/01447394211000407 - [link]
- Peter Marks & Lasse Gerrits (2020) - Semantic and syntactic transfer of fitness landscape models to the analysis of collective and public decision making processes - Bestuurskunde, 29 (2), 87-88 - doi: 10.5553/Bk/092733872020029002009 - [link]
- J Stieg, Peter Marks & Lasse Gerrits (2019) - UN-CODE: Software for Structuring and Visualizing Collective Decision-Making Based on Qualitative Data - Journal of Open Research Software, 7 (1) - doi: 10.5334/jors.246 - [link]
- Peter Marks, Lasse Gerrits & J Marx (2019) - How to use fitness landscape models for the analysis of collective decision-making: a case of theory-transfer and its limitations - Biology & Philosophy, 34 (1) - doi: 10.1007/s10539-018-9669-4 - [link]
- Peter Marks & Lasse Gerrits (2019) - Association between decisions: Experiments with coupled two-person games - [link]
- David Vaandrager & Peter Marks (2019) - Gebiedsgericht werken in Woerden: Een onderzoek naar publieke waarden in Molenvliet en Harmelen - [link]
- Peter Marks & Lasse Gerrits (2018) - Semantic and Syntactic Transfer of Fitness Landscape Models to the Analysis of Collective and Public Decision-Making Processes - [link]
- Ian Elliot, Monika Knassmueller & Peter Marks (2023) - EGPA - 2023 (Chair)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Ian Elliot, Monika Knassmueller & Peter Marks (2022) - EGPA Conference 2022 (Chair)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Ian Elliot, Monika Knassmueller & Peter Marks (2021) - EGPA - 2021 - E-conference (Chair)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Ian Elliot, Monika Knassmueller & Peter Marks (2020) - EGPA 2020 (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Monika Knassmueller & Peter Marks (2019) - EGPA conference (Chair)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Peter Marks (2018) - UnCoDe (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Marks (2018) - Adventures in iterative modeling: the case of converting FL models from biology for CDM processes (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Peter Marks (2016) - Future curriculum for teaching PA in times of big challenges like climate change, migration, austerity and now Brexit (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Peter Marks (2016) - Societal challenges and teaching PA (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Popular - Peter Marks (2016) - Complexity, Governance & Networks (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic
