Workshops, Symposium & Conference Organization

• Co-Organizer of Special Session: Network Science Meets AI at ESANN 2025, April 23 - 25 2025, Bruges, Belgium
• Co-Organizer of SG Final Symposium: The Complexity of Social and Economic Systems: From Models to Measures, October 31 2024, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Organizer 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 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 2024, Berlin, Germany
• Co-Organizer of LoG Local Meetup, November 30 - December 1 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-Chair of Workshop on Higher-Order Models in Network Science, September 17 2020, online event
• 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

Dagstuhl Seminars and Research Meetings

• Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 25224: Kolloquium zum GI-Dissertationspreis 2024, May 25 - 28 2025
• Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 25171: Holistic Graph-Processing Systems: Enabling Real-World Scale and Societal Impact, April 21 - 25 2025
• Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 25163: GIBU 2025: GI-Beirat der Universitätsprofessor*innen, April 13 - 15, 2025
• Organizer of Dagstuhl Research Meeting 24464: GPU-Accelerated Temporal Graph Learning with pathpyG, November 13 - 15 2024
• Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 24193: Kolloquium zum GI-Dissertationspreis 2023, May 5 - 8 2024
• Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 24122: Low-Dimensional Embeddings of High-Dimensional Data: Algorithms and Applications, March 17 - 22 2024
• Co-Organizer of Dagstuhl Seminar 21352: Higher-Order Graph Models: From Theoretical Foundations to Machine Learning, August 29 - September 1 2021
• Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 15482: Social Concepts in Self-organising Systems, Nov 22 - 27, 2015
• Participant at Dagstuhl Research Meeting 15292: GI-Klausur zu Grand Challenges der Informatik, July 12 - 15 2015
• Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 14502: Informatik@Schule - Agenda für informatische Bildung in der Schule, December 7-10 2014
• Participant at Dagstuhl Seminar 11181: Organic Computing - Design of Self-Organizing Systems, May 1 - 6 2011
• Participant at Dagstuhl Advanced Training 07393: Doktorandenseminar, Sept 27 - 28 2007

PhD Student Supervision

• Jan von Pichowski, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, since 2024
• 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 Bergakademie Freiberg
• 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

• Member of the Jury of the GI Dissertation Award (since 2024)
• Expert Member of 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

• Recognition as "Commendable Reviewer" at ACM KDD (2025)
• 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 (2022 - 2024)
• Editor of EPJ Data Science (2018 - 2024)
• 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)

• Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany
• Villum Foundation, Denmark
• 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 Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
• 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)

• The 51st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026)
• The Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), July 13 - 19, Vancouver, Canada
• The 33rd ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW 2025), Sydney, Australia
• 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2025), May 3 - 5 2025, Thailand
• Area Chair for Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG 2024), Virtual Event
• 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), Singapore
• ACM KDD 2025, Barcelona
• 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024), Vancouver, Canada
• 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