Contact
- michael.szell@gmail.com
- Address
- Computer Science Dept.
ITU Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7
2300 København, Denmark - Office
- 4E04
Profiles
GScholar | ORCID | arXiv | Github
Recent papers
Nature Reviews Physics: Taking census of physics
Nature Physics: A Nobel opportunity for interdisciplinarity
Urban Planning: Crowdsourced Quantification and Visualization of Urban Mobility Space Inequality
Scientific Reports: Identifying and modeling the structural discontinuities of human interactions
Scientific Reports: Scaling Law of Urban Ride Sharing
Recent media coverage
Il Sole 24 Ore: Se l’automobile diventa un mezzo pubblico
Der Tagesspiegel: Ausstellung in Mitte eröffnet neue Blicke auf die Stadt
trend: Frauen-Netzwerke: Schüchternheit ist keine Zier
Der Standard: Weniger Autos in der Stadt der Zukunft
Fast Company: See Just How Much Of A City’s Land Is Used For Parking Spaces
News and running events
2019-09-05 | ![]() | What the Street?! added to Futurium's permanent exhibition |
2019-08-07 | ![]() | Joined editorial board of International Journal of Geo-information |
2019-08-01 | ![]() | New affiliation at ISI Foundation |
2019-04-24 | ![]() | New research group founded: NEtwoRks, Data, and Society (NERDS) at ITU Copenhagen |
2019-05-09 | ![]() | Postdoc wanted at NERDS |
2019-02-01 | ![]() | New position at ITU Copenhagen |
2019-01-08 | ![]() | Paper published in Nature Reviews Physics on taking census of physics |
2019-01-07 | ![]() | Call for papers at PLOS ONE: Science of Stories Submission deadline: 2019-06-14 |
2018-11-01 | ![]() | Paper published in Nature Physics on interdisciplinarity and the Nobel Prize |
2018-10-17 | ![]() | What the Street!? visualization won the City Vis 2018 competition in Art & Advocacy |
2018-03-29 | ![]() | Paper published in Urban Planning |
2018-03-14 | ![]() | Tribute to Stephen Hawking published |
2018-01-09 | ![]() | Joined Editorial Board of Complex Systems |
2017-12-15 | ![]() | Joined Editorial Board of PLOS ONE |
2017-12-05 | ![]() | Call for papers at International Journal of Geo-information: Human-Centric Data Science for Urban Studies Editors: Resch, Szell Submission deadline: 2019-04-30 |
2017-05-04 | ![]() | Call for papers at EPJ Data Science: Individual and Collective Human Mobility: Description, Modelling, Prediction Editors: Simini, Ghoshal, Pappalardo, Szell, Hövel Submission deadline (extended): 2018-01-31 |
Bio
Michael Szell is assistant professor in Data Science at IT University of Copenhagen, researcher at ISI Foundation, and external faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. His research uses an interdisciplinary approach combining computer science, physics, and social sciences, to quantitatively understand the patterns behind interlinked human behavior, involving mining and modeling large-scale data sets of human activities. Michael's current focus is on urban mobility, sustainable transport, and data visualization. He has also developed the award-winning massive multiplayer online game "Pardus", www.pardus.at, and several interactive data visualization platforms.
Research interests
- Urban mobility and sustainable transport
- Data visualization, Data science, Complex systems
- Quantifying human behavior and social networks, in particular online and in cities
Research highlights
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Data visualization highlights
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Education
2012 / 03 | ![]() | Ph.D. in Physics, University of Vienna Ph.D. Thesis
Advisors: Stefan Thurner, Christoph Dellago |
2007 / 10 | ![]() | M.Sc. in Technical Mathematics with focus on computer science, Vienna University of Technology M.Sc. Thesis |
Current positions
since 2019 / 08 | ![]() | Researcher, ISI Foundation |
since 2019 / 02 | ![]() | Assistant professor, Computer Science Department, IT University of Copenhagen |
since 2017 / 04 | ![]() | External faculty, Complexity Science Hub Vienna |
since 2006 / 09 | Founder and manager of Bayer & Szell OG | |
since 2004 / 07 | ![]() | Developer and administrator of the Massive Multiplayer Online Game Pardus |
Past positions
2019 / 01 2017 / 10 | ![]() | Assistant professor, Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University |
2019 / 01 2017 / 09 | ![]() | Researcher, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2019 / 01 2016 / 09 | ![]() | Adjunct visiting professor, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University |
2017 / 09 2016 / 10 | ![]() | Visiting research fellow, Center for Network Science, Central European University |
2017 / 09 2016 / 09 | ![]() | Research fellow, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
2016 / 12 2016 / 09 | ![]() | Researcher in residence, moovel lab |
2016 / 09 2014 / 07 | ![]() | Postdoctoral research associate, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University |
2014 / 07 2012 / 04 | ![]() | Postdoctoral research fellow, Senseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2011 / 12 2009 / 01 | ![]() | Research assistant, Section for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna |