Dietrich Stauffer (6 February 1943 – 6 August 2019) was a German professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cologne.
Two years later he was appointed associate professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cologne, where he remained for the rest of his career.
[2][1] In 1989 he was one of the founding directors of the supercomputer centre set up at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, where one of his main areas of research was cellular automata.
[1] In the 1990s he pioneered econophysics and sociophysics, publishing the book Evolution, Money, War and Computers with Brazilian colleagues.
[3] Stauffer published 620 articles and six books, as well as editing the Annual Reviews of Computational Physics and serving as a member of the editorial board of a number of journals.