News and running events
| 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 |
| 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 |
Bio
Michael Szell is assistant professor at Central European University, Department of Network and Data Science, adjunct visiting professor at Northeastern University, Center for Complex Network Research, and external faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. His interdisciplinary background of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science is well reflected in his research goals: To quantitatively understand collective behavior and the underlying patterns of our interlinked actions and decisions, involving mining and modeling large-scale data sets of human activities using computational and network-based approaches. Michael's current focus is exploring urban mobility, sustainability, and data visualization, following his previous research positions at MIT's Senseable City Lab and moovel lab. More generally he works on understanding urban and online environments, for example the social dynamics of players in his massive multiplayer online game "Pardus", www.pardus.at. Michael received his academic degrees in Vienna, Austria (MSc from Vienna University of Technology, PhD from University of Vienna).
Research interests
- Quantifying human behavior and social networks, in particular online and in cities
- Urban sustainability and human mobility
- Data visualization, Data science, Complex systems
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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
| 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 |
| since 2017 / 04 |  | External faculty, Complexity Science Hub Vienna |
| since 2016 / 09 |  | Adjunct visiting professor, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University |
| 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
| 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 |