Dirk Brockmann

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Dirk Brockmann (born September 2, 1969 in Braunschweig ) is a German physicist and professor at the Institute for Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Robert Koch Institute . Brockmann is known for his work on complex systems , complex networks , computational epidemiology, human mobility and anomalous diffusion .

Career and research

Brockmann studied physics and mathematics at Duke University and the University of Göttingen , where he received his degree in theoretical physics in 1995 and his doctorate in 2003. After postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization , he became Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University in 2008 . In 2013 he returned to Germany, where he became professor at the Institute of Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Brockmann worked on a variety of topics ranging from computational neuroscience , anomalous diffusion, Levy flights , human mobility, computational epidemiology, and complex networks.

Brockmann pioneered the scientific use of mass data collected in online games in a 2006 study in which he and his colleagues analyzed the geographic distribution of millions of dollar bills posted on Where's online banknote tracking website George?  were documented. This study led to the discovery of universal laws of scaling in human mobility, the prediction of the 2009 pandemic flu spread in the United States, and effective geographic restrictions in the United States. Brockmann also pioneered the development of computational models and prediction systems for the global spread of epidemics based on global aviation. In a study from 2013 Brockmann and his colleague Dirk Helbing showed that complex global contagion phenomena can be mapped to simple, spreading wave patterns with the help of the theoretical concept of effective distance. This method was used to estimate the import risk during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa in 2014.

Since 2017 he has published "Complexity Explorables", interactive 3D animations of complex systems.

At the Robert Koch Institute he heads the project group P 4: Epidemiological Modeling of Infectious Diseases . The focus of the work at the RKI is the modeling of the spread and dynamics of infectious diseases, for which mathematical models, numerical methods and application-oriented computer simulations of complex spread phenomena are developed. The project group is part of a cooperation between the RKI and the Institute of Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Dirk Brockmann's epidemiological modeling of infectious diseases department.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal details: Dirk Brockmann. In: welt.de . August 11, 2014, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ D. Brockmann, T. Geisel: Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 170601 (2003) - L \ 'evy Flights in Inhomogeneous Media. In: journals.aps.org. April 28, 2003, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ L. Hufnagel, D. Brockmann, and T. Geisel: Forecast and control of epidemics in a globalized world. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. National Academy of Sciences, December 15, 2003, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ L. Hufnagel, D. Brockmann, and T. Geisel: The scaling laws of human travel. In: nature.com. January 26, 2006, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  5. ^ Richard Morgan: Money-Circulation Science. In: nytimes.com. December 10, 2006, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Dirk Brockmann, Dirk Helbing: The Hidden Geometry of Complex, Network-Driven Contagion Phenomena. In: Science Magazine. American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 13, 2013, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Complexity Explorables. In: complexity-explorables.org. November 18, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ RKI - P 4 Modeling of Infectious Diseases. In: rki.de. May 10, 2016, accessed April 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brockmann, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, professor of biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig