Nikolas Popper

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Simulation model from dwh on the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria .

Nikolas Popper , known as Niki Popper (born February 27, 1974 in Vienna ), is an Austrian simulation researcher , university professor and entrepreneur . He works as the coordinator of the Vienna University of Technology program COCOS (Center for Computational Complex Systems) and gained national recognition through his computer models of the COVID-19 pandemic .

Life, work

Popper studied mathematics , philosophy and jazz theory in Vienna , Barcelona and Moscow (Idaho, USA) but did not complete philosophy and jazz theory. He received his doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology and worked as a science editor and journalist. He founded two companies:

  • die Drahtwarenhandlung , a production company for science films , data journalism and computer animation and
  • the dwh GmbH , a R & D -Unternehmen for technical solutions and simulation services, offering a broad range of services (from the concept of a data-driven analysis to the market-ready solution).

Parallel to his entrepreneurial activity, Popper was and is active in research. His focus is on theory and applications of modeling and simulation of dynamic and complex systems. He dealt with the implementation and the parameterization, calibration and validation concepts as well as the application integration of the simulation models, with health system research and model-based health technology assessment (HTA), the impact assessment of medical technology. Popper became known for comparative modeling and simulation, for coupling and comparing mathematical model approaches, and for developing new modeling methods. He was jointly responsible for setting up the Master College for Applied Modeling, Simulation and Decision-Making at the Vienna University of Technology. He supervises master's and doctoral theses in the field of modeling and simulation. Niki Popper published numerous articles in professional journals and gave lectures at international conferences. He initiated a number of research projects and coordinated around a hundred R&D projects. He was appointed coordinator of the COCOS Center for Computational Complex Systems, an inter-faculty center at the Vienna University of Technology.

Since 2014 he has been chairman of DEXHELPP, the COMET K project for the efficient and secure use of data for decision-making in health systems (Decision Support for Health Policy and Planning) . In 2015 he obtained a PhD with a thesis on Comparative Modeling & Simulation .

In 2020, his model calculations were the basis for the measures taken by the Austrian federal government in the COVID-19 pandemic . Popper was appointed to the advisory staff of the coronavirus task force in the Ministry of Health . The standard commentary Petra Stuiber subsumed Popper together with Karl Habsburg-Lothringen , Tarek Leitner and Brigitte Lueger-Schuster as competence with valerian . Based on simulations, Popper shows the connection between spatial distance and spread.

TV productions (selection)

  • Biotopia - The Bio Boom , together with Michael Posset (ORF Selection 2015/16)
  • Energy drinks , together with Michael Posset (ORF Selection 2015/16)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ COVID-19: Computer model shows possible scenarios. March 6, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ How to calculate the epidemic. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Nikolas “Niki” Popper: CV Popper Niki Brief. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ TU Wien : COVID-19 in Vienna: Reduce contacts - save hospital beds , March 12, 2020
  5. ^ TU Wien: Search in the publication database. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ dwh: Niki Popper , accessed on March 26, 2020
  7. ↑ Nikolas Popper: Comparative modeling and simulation: a concept for modular modeling and hybrid simulation of complex systems . 2015, urn : nbn: at: at-ubtuw: 1-82118 .
  8. ↑ Florian Aigner , Claudia Vitt: Covid-19: Model Calculations by TU Wien Informatics Are Confirmed , TU-Informatics, March 23, 2020
  9. ↑ COVID-19: Computer model shows possible scenarios. March 26, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Coronavirus - Taskforce: Ministry of Health sets up taskforce. In: Sozialministerium.at. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Christiane Druml follows Martin Sprenger on the Corona advisory board. In: DerStandard.at . April 10, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Der Standard (Vienna): Competence with Valerian: ORF- "ZiB Special" on the Coronavirus , March 11, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Popper, Nikolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popper, Niki (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mathematician and simulation researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna