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Research Interests

  • Computational Social Science: text and network analysis for social media data
  • Information theoretic approach to complex systems: measures of complexity, complex networks, information decomposition, multi-level systems, game theory
  • Time series analysis - in particular analysis and modeling of human sleep EEG

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 1985-1990 Study of physics at the Technical University Dresden
  • 1990 Diploma in physics at the Technical University Dresden
  • 1990-1994 PhD student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Technical University Dresden
  • 1995 PhD in theoretical solid-state physics
  • 02/1995-03/2000 Postdoc in the nonlinear time series analysis group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden
  • 04/2000-04/2004 Research fellow in the group "Computer Assisted Physics" at the University Zürich working on time series analysis of EEG
  • since 05/2004 Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences