Academic Activities & Service
Workshops, Symposium & Conference Organization
- Chair of CAIDAS/BAYHOST Symposium on AI for Software Engineering, September 30 - October 1 2024, Würzburg, Germany
- Co-Chair of Doctoral Symposium of KI 2024, September 23/24 2024, Würzburg, Germany
- Co-Chair of Focus Session: Machine Learning for Complex Socio-economic Systems at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), March 18, Berlin, Germany
- Co-Organizer of LoG Local Meetup, November 30 - December 21 2023, Munich, Germany
- Co-Organizer of CAIDAS Workshop Data Analysis for the Digital Humanities, February 6 - 8 2023, Würzburg, Germany
- Organizer of LoG Local Meetup Würzburg, December 21 2022, Würzburg, Germany
- Co-Organizer of Dagstuhl seminar Higher-Order Graph Models: From Theoretical Foundations to Machine Learning, August 29 - September 1st 2021, Dagstuhl, Germany
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, July 2020, Rome, Italy
- Chair of Symposium Computational Social Science - Quo Vadis?, April 26, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland
- Program Co-Chair of Data Science Track at Informatik 2019, September 23-26, 2019, Kassel, Germany
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, May 28, 2019, Burlington, Vermont, USA
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 11-12, 2018, Paris, France
- Chair of Focus Session on Computational Social Science at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), March 15, 2018, Berlin, Germany
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASOST 2017), September 22, 2017, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 20, 2017, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Co-Chair of Workshop Informatik Begeisterung held at Informatik 2016, September 26, 2016, Klagenfurt, Austria
- Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair of 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2016), September 15, 2016, Augsburg, Germany
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, May 30, 2016, Seoul, Korea
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 2, 2015, Zaragoza, Spain
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'15), March 24-27, 2015, Porto, Portugal
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Social Influence held at 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014), November 10, 2014, Barcelona, Spain
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Dynamics on and of Complex Networks VII held at European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2014), September, 2014, Lucca, Italy
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, June 3, 2014, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'14), February 25 - 28, 2014, Lübeck, Germany
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Dynamics on and of Complex Networks VI held at European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2013), September, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Sozioinformatik held at GI-Jahrestagung Informatik 2013, September 14, 2013, Koblenz, Germany
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization in Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2013) held at IEEE SASO 2013, September 9, 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Workshop Co-Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), September 9-13, 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Sponsoring Co-Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), September 9-13, 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Self-optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'13), February 20, 2013, Prague, Czech Republic
- Program Co-Chair of 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2012), September 10-14, 2012, Lyon, France
- Co-Chair of Workshop on Complex Sciences in the Engineering of Computer Systems (CSECS 2012), February 28, 2012, Munich, Germany
- Co-Chair of Workshop on SocioAware Networked Computing Systems (SocioAware 2011), October 3, 2011, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
PhD Student Supervision
- Moritz Lampert, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2023
- Christoph Gote, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2023
- Franziska Heeg, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2022
- Chester Tan, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2022
- Lisi Qarkaxhija, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2022
- Dr. Luka Petrovic, University of Zurich, 2019 -- 2023
- Dr. Vincenzo Perri, University of Zurich, 2019 -- 2023
PhD Committee Memberships, Thesis Reviews & Opponent Roles
- Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, München, Germany (2023)
- University of Umeå Sweden (2023)
- University of Bologna, Italy (2023)
- Aalto University, Finland (2022)
- ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2021)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (2021)
- Northeastern University, USA (2020)
- IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy (2019)
- University of Luxembourg (2018)
External Reviewer for Professoral Hiring Commissions
- TU Graz
- TU Dresden
- HTW Saar
- FernUniversität in Hagen
- RWTH Aachen
Society Memberships
- Member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) (since 2022)
- Member of the Tolkien Society (since 2020)
- Member of the Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV) (since 2018)
- Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) (since 2018)
- Member of the Konrad Zuse Gesellschaft (since 2013)
- Member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (since 2001)
Committee & Board Memberships
- Expert Member of an Evaluation Commission for the Leibniz Association (2024)
- Appointed Member of the Executive Board and Vice-Speaker of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS) (since 2023)
- Vice-Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analytics (IZMD) (2020 - 2021)
- Elected Member of the Presiding Committee of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (2017 - 2020)
- Ambassador of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) at University of Zurich (since 2018)
- Member of the Data Science Task Force of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (since 2017)
- Founding Chair of the Computational Social Science section at the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (since 2016)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of swiss innovation valley ag (2016 - 2019)
- Elected member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO) (2014 - 2018)
- Chair of the Juniorfellows at Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI e.V.) (2015-2016)
- Management Committee Member of EU COST Action TD1210 KNOWeSCAPE: Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes (2014 - 2016)
- Member of the Steering Committee (Leitungsgremium) of the GI section (Fachgruppe) Organic Computing (2013 - 2016)
Awards and Scholarships
- Best Reviewer Award at the Learning on Graphs conference (2022)
- Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) (2022)
- Special Mention in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Impact Paper Award (2019)
- SNSF Professorship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2018)
- Juniorfellowship from the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) (2014)
- Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Communications (TrustCom) (2012)
- Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) (2004-2005)
Editorial Activities
- Section Editor for "Complex Computing Systems" of Advances in Complex Systems (since 2022)
- Editor of EPJ Data Science (since 2018)
- Guest editor of Social Network Analysis and Mining
- Guest editor of Topical Issue in Advances in Complex Systems: Structure and Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering: A Complex Networks Perspective
- Co-editor of book Social Informatics - The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT, Springer Proceedings in Complexity
Reviewing Activities (Funding agencies)
- Royal Society of New Zealand (Te Aparangi)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
- National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, Hungary
- Research Council of the Universitë catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Polish National Science Centre, Poland
- Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel
Reviewing Activities (Journals)
- PNAS
- Nature Physics
- Nature Machine Intelligence
- Science Advances
- Nature Communications
- Physical Review X
- Physical Review E
- Physical Review Letters
- EPJ Data Science
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- PlosONE
- Algorithms
- Palgrave Communications
- ACM Computing Surveys
- IEEE Software
- IEEE Technology and Society
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Journal of Informetrics
- Scientometrics
- Network Science
- Journal of Complex Networks
- Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Future Internet
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- Special Issue in Journal of Internet Services and Applications: Software Engineering from a Social Network Perspective
- Special Issue in Mind & Society: Complexity Modeling in Social Science and Economics
- ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM TAAS)
- Advances in Complex Systems (ACS)
- European Physics Journal B
- Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Modern Physics Letters B: Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics and Applied Physics
Reviewing Activities (Conferences and Workshops)
- ACM KDD 2024, Barcelona
- The 33rd ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW 2024), Singapore
- NeurIPS Workshop: New Frontiers in Graph Learning (GLFrontiers 2023), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG 2023), Virtual Event
- The 20th Workshop on Machine Learning in Graphs (MLG) at ECML-PKDD, September 22 2023, Torino, Italy
- The 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023), Long Beach, CA, USA
- The 32nd ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW 2023), Austin, TX, USA
- Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG 2022), Virtual Event
- 30th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2022), Tokyo, Japan
- 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2022), Washington, D.C., USA
- The 31st ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW 2022), Lyon, France
- 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), Virtual Conference
- 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), Vancouver, Canada
- International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2019), Burlington, Vermont, USA
- The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA'18), Turin, Italy
- 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2018)
- 7th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2018), Cambridge, UK
- Doctoral Symposium of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2018), Trento, Italy
- International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2018), Paris, France
- ACM Collective Intelligence 2018, Zurich, Switzerland
- COMPLENET 2018, Boston, MA, USA
- European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, London, UK
- 5th International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASOST 2017), Tucson, AZ, USA
- 9th IEEE Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2017), Atlanta, GA, USA
- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17), Montréal, Canada
- 5th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2016), Milano, Italy
- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-16), Cologne, Germany
- 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), Montréal, Canada
- 8th IEEE Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2016), San Francisco, CA, USA
- International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci-X 2016), Wroclaw, Poland
- 4th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2015), Bangkok, Thailand
- 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015), Florence, Italy
- 3rd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASOST 2015), Boston, MA, USA
- 9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2015), Boston, MA, USA
- Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY 2015), Grenoble, France
- 1st International Workshop on Citizen-Oriented Autonomic Computing and Technologies for SmartCities (COACTS 2015), Grenoble, France
- 3rd International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'15), Porto, Portugal
- 2nd International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'14), Lübeck, Germany
- 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2014), London, UK
- Workshop on Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud Applications 2013 (SETM 2013), October 14, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
- 1st International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in organic and autonomic computing systems (SAOS'13), Prague, Czech Republic
- 2nd International Workshop on SocioAware Networked Computing Systems (SocioAware 2013), Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (Complex 2012), Santa Fe, NM, USA
- 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2012), Lyon, France
- International Workshop on Complex Sciences in the Engineering of Computer Systems (CSECS 2012), Munich, Germany
- 1st International Workshop on SocioAware Networked Computing Systems (SocioAware 2011), Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- 5th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (IEEE SASO 2011), Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- 4th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE'11), Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China
- 3rd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE'10), Taipei, Taiwan
- 1st International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX'09), Shanghai, China
- 2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE'09), Lafayette, LA, USA