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Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience

Research on the drivers and mitiagation strategies to reduce drug shortages.

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?

Resilience

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

Social software engineering

Data and network science methods help software development teams understand their internal team structure, identify perils, and design and implement corresponding solutions.

Collective dynamics of opinions and emotions

How do collective emotions and opinions emerge? Can we explain polarization?

Systems interventions

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

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

Economic networks

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

Funded by SNF

R&D collaborations 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.

Reputation, Trust and Cooperation

Social relations are driven by values.

Science of Science

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

Social Influence

What propagates during social interactions? Knowledge, sentiments, dissonance ...

Network Theory

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

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Economic Geography

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

Systemic Risks

The failure of a few system elements causes failure cascades

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