Current position: Professor of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, and affiliate professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich as well as the Department of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft. Director of the PhD school in „Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future“ at TU Delft.

Research at the Professorship of Computational Social Science is focused on complexity science, social and information systems, digital society, and global systems science. It aims at a three-fold integration:

• bringing modeling and computer simulation of techno-socio-economic processes and phenomena together with related theoretical, experimental, and data-driven work,

• combining perspectives of different scientific disciplines (e.g. social, computer, and complexity science; socio- and econophysics),

• bridging between fundamental and applied work.

Moreover, the professorship is also engaged in the study of systemic risks and possible measures of risk reduction and disaster response, including epidemic spreading scenarios.