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Eckehard Olbrich

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Eckehard Olbrich

Group Leader

Eckehard Olbrich

Computational Social Science / Postdoc Contact

Email - 733 E2 06

Science Coordination & Outreach Geometry and Complex Systems MiS Profile MiS Profile

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

Publications

Collaborations

Collaborators

Sven Banisch (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)

Peter Achermann (Environmental Sleep Biology and Biomathematical Modeling, University of Zürich)

Nils Bertschinger (FIAS)

David Wolpert (Santa Fe Institute)

Kristian Lindgren (Chalmers)

Holger Kantz (Research group Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series Analysis at the MPIPKS Dresden)
TISEAN - Free Software for Nonlinear time series analysis

Thomas Wennekers (Plymouth University)

Current Projects

SoMe4Dem - Social Media for Democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship (Horizon Europe 101094752) - Coordinator

Past Projects

ODYCCEUS - Opinion dynamics and cultural Conflict in European Spaces (Horizon 2020 732942) - 2017 2021 - Coordinator

MatheMACS - Mathematics of multi-level anticipatory complex systems (FP7-ICT-318723) - Work Package Leader

CEEDS - The collective experience of emphatic data systems (FP7-ICT-258749) - Research Scientist

An information theoretic approach to autonomous learning of embodied agents - funded by the DFG priority program "Autonomous learning"(SPP 1527) - Co-PI

Evolution of networks: Modeling the complexity and robustness of evolving biochemical networks - funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung in the initiative "New conceptual approaches to modeling and simulation of complex systems" - Research Scientist

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