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Dirk HELBING (Chairman) Since June 2007, Dirk Helbing (*January 19, 1965) works at ETH Zurich as Professor of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation. Before, he was the managing director of the Institute for Transport & Economics at Dresden University of Technology, where he was appointed full professor in the year 2000. Having studied physics and mathematics in Göttingen, his master thesis in 1990 dealt with the nonlinear modeling and multi-agent simulation of observed self-organization phenomena in pedestrian crowds. In 1992, he finished his Ph.D. at Stuttgart University on modeling social interaction processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, stochastic methods and complex systems theory, which was awarded two research prizes. After having completed his habilitation on traffic dynamics in 1996, he received a Heisenberg scholarship. Both theses were printed by international publishers. Apart from this, Helbing has (co-)edited several proceedings of international conferences on cooperative dynamics in socio-economic and traffic systems. He has given about 250 talks and published more than 200 contributions, the majority of them in international, reviewed journals, including Nature (5), Science (1), and Reviews of Modern Physics (1). The public media (newspapers, radio, TV) have reported about his work more than 300 times. Helbing serves as referee for many interdisciplinary, socio-economic, physics, and transportation journals as well as 5 national and international science foundations. He is in the editorial boards of Networks and Heterogeneous Media (NHM), Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (JEIC), JSTAT, Transportation Research B, Transportation Science, and a member of the science or steering committees of several European Networks of Excellence. He has organized many international conferences and workshops, including the EU Thematic Institute on Information and Material Flows in Complex Networks and the European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07). Helbing has worked abroad at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, Xerox PARC in the Silicon Valley, the Collegium Budapest---Institute for Advanced Study in Hungary, and INRETS in Paris. Moreover, he collaborates closely with international scientists from the US, many European and some Asian countries. Thanks to various applied multi-partner research projects, he also maintains good cooperations with several international companies (Volkswagen AG, SCA Packaging, Infineon Technologies, the PTV AG, the Bosch AG, Siemens AG, and others). Prof. Helbing's previous and current research activities include: 1) behavioral models, decision and game theory, 2) cascade failures in critical infrastructure networks, disaster preparedness and response management, evacuation, 3) optimization of transport and production systems, 4) dynamics of supply networks and business cycles, 5) vehicle and pedestrian traffic including panic, 6) multi-agent simulation of socio-economic and biophysical systems, 7) self-organization and pattern formation phenomena in space and time, 8) stochastic processes and Monte-Carlo simulations. He has been principal investigator in about 20 research projects sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the European Union (EU), the Volkswagen Foundation, the Daimler-Benz Foundation, and various industrial partners. This includes the EU projects MMCOMNET (Measuring and Modelling Complex Networks Across Domains) and IRRIIS (Integrated Risk Reduction in Information Infrastructure Systems), the DFG project Disaster and Evacuation Scenarios, the industrial project Traffic jam avoidance by intelligent vehicle behavior in collaboration with the Volkwagen AG, and A detailed list of publications is available here. |
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Kay AXHAUSEN Kay W. Axhausen (*October 8, 1958) is Professor of Transport Planning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He holds his post in the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Before his appointment at ETH he worked at the Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and an MSc from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Axhausen has been involved in the measurement and modelling of travel behaviour for the last 25 years contributing especially to the literature on stated preferences, microsimulation of travel behaviour, valuation of travel time and its components, parking behaviour, activity scheduling and travel diary data collection. His current work focuses on the microsimulation of daily travel behaviour and long-term mobility choices and the response of the land-use system to those choices. This work is supported by analyses of human activity spaces and their dependence on the traveller's personal social network. The need to understand and forecast the trajectories of the elements of transport systems (persons, firms, links, nodes, service provision and providers, activity opportunity supply) are moving the research directly into the domain of the proposal. Last but not least, Axhausen was the chair of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) until December 2005 and is an editor of Transportation. A full CV with a list of recent publications can be found here. |
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Lars-Erik CEDERMAN Lars-Erik Cederman (* May 27, 1963) holds the Chair of International Conflict Research at the Center of Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich since May 2003. He was previously Associate Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of California at Los Angeles and University Lecturer at Oxford University. Lars-Erik Cederman graduated from Uppsala University with a M.Sci. in Engineering Physics (1983-1988), followed by a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieurs at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (1988-1990) and a PhD in Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1990-1994). Lars-Erik Cederman received the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan, and has held fellowships from Fulbright Commission, the Swiss Confederation, Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, and the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University. Lars-Erik Cederman is the author of Emergent Actors: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997 that was awarded the Furniss Book Award. He is the author of articles in leading journals in political science including the American Political Science Review, International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the European Journal of International Relations and the International Studies Quarterly. Lars-Erik Cederman's research interests include the causes of civil and international wars in the context of macro-historical processes such as state formation, nationalism and democratization. To trace such transformations, he relies on agent-based modeling, geographic information systems, statistical and qualitative analysis. |
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Frank SCHWEITZER Frank Schweitzer (*January 31, 1960) is Full Professor for Systems Design at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich since 2004. He is also associated member of the Department of Physics at the ETH Zurich (D-PHYS). In his professional carrier, he worked for different research institutions (Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Sankt Augustin) and universities (Humboldt University Berlin, Cornell University Ithaca NY, Emory University, Atlanta GA). Frank Schweitzer received his first Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in theoretical physics and his second Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in philosophy of science, he further earned a habilitation/Venia Legendi in physics. He initiated and lead (2001-2005) the section of the German Physical Society (DPG) for the physics of socio-economic systems (AKSOE). Further, he was a founding member and member of the steering committee of the European Network of Excellence "Complex Systems" (EXYSTENCE) from 2001 to 2006. Frank Schweitzer is elected member of the council of the German Physical Society (DPG) (2006-2009). Frank Schweitzer is Editor-in-Chief of the "European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems" (EPJB) with responsibility for the section "Complex Systems" and Editor-in-Chief of "Advances in Complex Systems" (ACS). He is also member of the editorial board of different economics and physics journals such as Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, and International Journal of Modern Physics C. Numerous books, publications in different fields and a wide spectrum of invited talks reflect Frank Schweitzer's broadly based scientific interests. The recent focus of the research group of Frank Schweitzer is on applications of complex systems theory to the dynamics of social and economic organizations. This includes the development of formal concepts, quantitative modeling and computer simulations. The group also participates in scientific collaboration projects such as "Measuring and Modelling Complex Networks Across Domains" (MMCOMNET) funded by the European Commission, and "Physics of Risk" funded by the Swiss SBF.
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Hans Jürgen HERRMANN Hans Jürgen Herrmann (*January 1, 1954) is theoretical physicist and full professor at ETH Zurich's Institute of Building Materials since April 2006. Born on January 1st, 1954 in La Habana, Cuba, and raised in Bogotà, he studied physics in Göttingen and Cologne where he made his PhD in 1981. After spending one year as post-doc in the USA he became collaborator at the Service de Physique Théorique in Saclay. He became member of section 02 of the CNRS and is today Directeur de Recherche 1ère Cl. en mise à disponibilité. In 1990 he was head of the many-body group at HLRZ of KFA Jülich for four years. Then he was director of the PMMH of ESPCI, Paris for six years, where he also filled a chair. In 1996, he was named full professor and director of the Institute of Computer Physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (1986), member of the Brazilian Academy of Science, Max-Planck prize recipient (2002) and won the 2005 Gentner-Kastler prize. Herrmann is managing editor of International Journal of Modern Physics C and of Granular Matter and member of several editorial boards and committees including the Forschungskommission of ETH. He has co-authored about 400 publications and co-edited 13 books. His education is based on theoretical solid state physics (master) and statistical physics of critical phenomena (PhD). After his PhD he worked, among others, on gelation and irreversible growth and built a special purpose computer to calculate the conductivity of percolation clusters. He has studied the fracture of heterogeneous materials since 1986, and since 1992, he has investigated the properties of granular media. Highlights in this research were the construction of space-filling bearings and the establishment of equations of motion for dunes. His present research subjects include dense colloids, the formation of river deltas, quicksand, the failure of fibrous and polymeric composites and, in particular, complex social networks.
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Didier SORNETTE Didier Sornette (*June 25, 1957) holds the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich since March 2006. He is a member of the Swiss Finance Institute since 2007. He is also a professor associated with both the department of Physics and the department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. Sornette is also an Adjunct Professor of Geophysics at IGPP and ESS at UCLA. He was previously jointly a Professor of Geophysics at UCLA, Los Angeles California and a Research Director on the theory and prediction of complex systems at the National Center for Scientific Research in France. Didier Sornette graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS Ulm, Paris), in Physical Sciences (1977-81), obtained his Master thesis at University of Nice (1981) and his PhD at University of Nice in Physical Sciences (1985). He did his post-doc at the College de France in the Condensed Matter Laboratory of Prof. P.G. de Gennes (1985-1986). He was also a visiting scientist at ANU, Canberra, Australia (1984), at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1986-1990) and at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara, CA (1992). Didier Sornette has been the Research Director in the X-RS R&D Company in Orsay, France (1988-1995), the Scientific advisor of the Technical Director of Thomson-Marconi Sonar Company (now THALES) in Nice-Sophia Antipolis Technopolis, France (1984-1996) and consultant for numerous aerospace industrial companies, banks, investment and reinsurance companies (1991-present). He is a regular speaker at major financial world centres to train CEOs and CFOs on financial risks. Sornette is the Research Director of Insight Research LLC, a R\&D California based company. Moreover, he is the director of the Board of Renaissance Investment Management, a UK-based Hedge Fund. Didier Sornette received the Science et Defence Young Investigator French National Award (1985), the 2000 Research McDonnell Award on Studying Complex Systems, the Scientific Prediction of Crises and the Risques-Les Echos Prize 2002 for his work on Predictability of catastrophic events: Material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes and human birth. Didier Sornette is the author and co-author of more than 370 research papers in refereed international journals and more than 130 papers in books and conference proceedings. He has been invited more than 350 times to present his work in international conferences and Universities worldwide. Furthermore, he is member of the Editorial board for the Springer Lecture Notes, the Springer Series on Synergetics and the Springer Complexity Programme. Didier Sornette's research interests include the prediction of crises and extreme events in complex systems (with applications to finance, economics, marketing, earthquakes, rupture, biology, medicine); Finance and economics: bubbles and crashes, large risks and tail dependence, theory of derivatives, portfolio optimization, trading strategies, insurance, macro-economics, agent-based models, market microstructures. |
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