Dirk Helbing |
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| Born | (1965-01-19) January 19, 1965
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| Nationality | German, Swiss |
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| Alma mater | University of Göttingen (1984-1990) |
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| Known for | Social force model, crowd simulation, traffic simulation, pedestrian microsimulation, complex systems, computational social science, collective intelligence, digital democracy, digital ethics |
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| Awards | Golden Idea Award 2012 |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Complex systems, computational social science |
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| Institutions | ETH Zurich (2007–)
TU Delft (2015ff)
University of Oxford (2010)
(host: Peter Hedström)
Harvard University (2010)
(hosts: Martin Nowak, Nicholas A. Christakis)
INRETS (2004)
(host: Patrick Lebacque)
TU Dresden (2000-2007)
Collegium Budapest, Hungary (2000)
Tel Aviv University (1999)
(hosts: Isaac Goldhirsch, Eshel Ben-Jacob)
Eötvös Loránd University (1998)
(host: Tamás Vicsek)
Xerox PARC (1998)
(host: Bernardo Huberman)
Weizmann Institute of Science (1997)
(host: David Mukamel)
University of Stuttgart (1990-2000) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Wolfgang Weidlich |
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| Other academic advisors | Manfred R. Schroeder |
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Dirk Helbing (born January 19, 1965) is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences of ETH Zurich and affiliate of its Computer Science Department.