"I think the next century
will be the century of complexity."

- Stephen Hawking, 2000

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

- Albert Einstein

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Unifying Viral Genetics and Human Transportation Data to Predict the Global Transmission Dynamics of Human Influenza H3N2
PLOS Pathogens 10, e1003932 (2014)
How to Save Human Lives with Complexity Science
SSRN (2014)
The hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomena
Science 342, 1337 (2013)
Natural emergence of clusters and bursts in network evolution
Phys. Rev. X, 3 021016 (2013)
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Facebook: Chronik einer Seuche

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Watch the following interview on German NDR television show Kulturjournal. Dirk explains the similarities and differences between conventional epidemics and the "Facebook epidemic".

Recent Radio Interviews

Topic: The hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomena, Science 342, 1337 (2013)

Youtube: Hidden Geometry Video collects > 100k views

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This video, that explains the basic idea behind our recent study in Science has attracted >100k views in 2 days.

In the movies: Numb3rs

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Charlie Eppes and Nancy Hackett use “Dirk Brockmann’s work with human mobility networks” to predict the location of a future robbery in this episode of the popular CBS show. Charlie finds fractional diffusion equations fascinating.

You can watch the clip here...

Postdoctoral Fellow Chen Li joins the team

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Theoretical physicist Chen Li, formerly at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, recently joined our team.
Chen Li will be working on dynamical processes on networks and applications to infectious disease dynamics.

National Public Radio: Research featured on Krulwich wonders

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A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map Of America.
This story covers our research on the hidden, effective borders in the United States. Read more....

More info also on the project page.

The Story of "Wheresgeorge Billtracking Research"

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How an old school friend triggered the study of dollar bill movements that led to the discovery of the scaling laws of human travel. Read More....

(download PDF).

ABC 7 - Eyewitness News

The story covers our research in which we used wheresgeorge.com bill tracking data in the development of a model for the forecast of the spread of pandemic H1N1 in the US in 2009
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Institute for Theoretical Biology, Dept. of Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin & Projectgroup Epidemiological Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin