Welcome to the
Chair of Systems Design
We are a group of about 15 researchers from various disciplines (statistical physics, applied mathematics, computer science, political science and economics). Our research can be best described as data driven modelling of complex systems with particular emphasis on social, socio-technical, and socio-economic systems.
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Tracing Opioids Across the US: A High-Resolution Pharmaceutical Distribution Dataset
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Empirical Networks are Sparse: Enhancing Multi-Edge Models with Zero-Inflation
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Processing Large-Scale Archival Records: The Case of the Swiss Parliamentary Records
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Disentangling the Timescales of a Complex System: A Bayesian Approach to Temporal Network Analysis
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Talk: Rank Dynamics
Exploring rankings across systems, understanding adaptability and robustness.
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Talk: Large Language Models in the Age of Misinformation
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Paper on Supply Chain Resilience Published in Science Advances
Our research on pharmaceutical supply chain resilience has been published in …
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Event: Social Software Engineering
Symposium at ETH Zurich on December 15, 2023
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Talk by Rebekka Burkholz
Scaling Up Gene Regulatory Models to Fight Underspecification
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