Projects

Funded by SNF
130 Years of Swiss Parliament
Building a searchable database of the Swiss Parliament and analyzing how members of parliament have shaped the Swiss political landscape over the past 130 years.

Funded by SNF
Signed Relations and Structural Balance in Complex Systems: From Data to Models
Structural imbalances can induce a dynamics to resolve conflicts but also one that increases polarization. Are we able to address this problem from a formal perspective?

Systems interventions
How to design and influence systems comprising a large number of interacting elements?

Resilience
How can we measure, understand and improve the resilience of complex systems in general and social organisations in particular?

Funded by SNF
Economic networks
Economic networks - our research line for 15 years, now: credit, risk, ownership, R&D collaborations, trade

Funded by SNF
R&D collaboration network of firms
An economic collaboration network at large scale: 15.000 firms, 21.000 research alliances over 25 years

Data Science
Methods for the study of large relational datasets, complex systems analysis, and time-stamped interactions.

Science of Science
The meta study of the scientific process, academic publishing and scientific careers.

Network Theory
Network representations and network models form the basis for the study of complex systems.

Economic Geography
Economic geography - how is economic activity distributed in physical space?