Since October 2019, I have been working with Dr. Jonathan Donges and Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann on a contagion- and network based understanding of Social Tipping processes. Under the working title Social tipping dynamics for climate change mitigation and sustainability, my PhD project is aimed at combining insights from complex contagion, collective behavior, and social transformation research, and implementing both data- and simulation-based methods.
My PhD project is funded and organized in the context of the interdisciplinary Young Academy of Geo.X, the geoscientific competence network in Berlin and Potsdam. At PIK, my work is embedded within the COPAN collaboration's research on the coevolution of natural and socio-economic subsystems of the Earth system in the Anthropocene. I am also a member of the PIK FutureLab - Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene, and the RD1 working group Whole Earth System Analysis.
Department
Working Group
FutureLab
Contact
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
- Social Tipping Points relevant for decarbonization and other sustainability transformations
- (Social) contagion and spreading processes on complex networks
- The role of urban systems in safeguarding the Planetary Boundaries
- Explainable AI methods for data analysis
Detection of (urban innovation) contagion:
Niklas H. Kitzmann, Pawel Romanczuk, Nico Wunderling and Jonathan F. Donges:
"Detecting contagious spreading of urban innovations on the global city network"
European Physical Journal - Special Topics 231, 1609–1624 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00470-4 (2021)
Jonathan F. Donges*, Jakob H. Lochner*, Niklas H. Kitzmann, Jobst Heitzig, Sune Lehmann, Marc Wiedermann and Jürgen Vollmer:
"Dose–response functions and surrogate models for exploring social contagion in the Copenhagen Networks Study"
European Physical Journal - Special Topics 230, 3311–3334 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00279-7
* The first two authors share the lead authorship
Machine learning methods for non-linear data analysis:
