News and running events
| 2017-06-21 |  | New data visualization project What the Street!? launched |
| 2017-07-29 2017-06-24 |  | Academic visit and collaboration at the Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University |
| 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: 2017-12-31 |
Bio
Michael Szell is research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences, and visiting at Northeastern University, Center for Complex Network Research, at Central European University, Center for Network Science, and at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. His interdisciplinary background of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics is well reflected in his research goals: To quantitatively understand collective behavior and the underlying patterns of our interlinked actions and decisions in a computational social science, involving mining and modeling large-scale data sets of human activity following a complex networks/systems approach.
Michael previously held research positions at MIT's Senseable City Lab and at moovel lab, exploring urban mobility and sustainability. His special focus is on urban and online environments and media, in particular he is known for his work on multiplex networks and social dynamics of the players in his massive multiplayer online game "Pardus", www.pardus.at. Michael received his academic degrees in Vienna, Austria (Vienna University of Technology and University of Vienna), studying social networks and dynamics at the Section for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna.
Research interests
- Computational social science, in particular of human behavior online and in cities
- Social networks: Analysis and modeling of structure, evolution, and processes
- Data visualization, human mobility, 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
| since 2017 / 04 |  | External faculty, Complexity Science Hub Vienna |
| since 2016 / 09 |  | Research fellow, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| since 2016 / 09 | | Visiting researcher, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University |
| since 2016 / 10 |  | Visiting research fellow, Center for Network Science, Central European 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
| 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 |