Fritz Kühlein

Fritz Kühlein is a doctoral researcher in the Department Integrative Earth System Science at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA) and in PIK's Earth Resilience Science Unit (ERSU). He has a background in Physics and Area Studies and is interested in micro- and macro-level feedbacks driving global extractive growth.

In the past, he has worked with MayaSim, an agent-based, social-ecological simulation model of the Classic Maya. He has further been maintaining and managing the collaborative production of pyunicorn, an open-source tool for complex systems science. In the context of the Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP), he has prepared pyunicorn's extensive deployment for the detection of nonlinear regime shifts in complex timeseries.

For his dissertation, he is working on a statistical re-delineation of the Great Acceleration, revisiting of suitable indicators and the framework’s integration with coevolutionary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Anthropocene.