Dr. Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad
Head of a research group "Computational Humanities"Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Modeling and Simulation of Complex Processes
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Spatio-temporal processes of change in past and present complex social systems
- epidemic spreading (MODUS-COVID project, Agent-Based Epidemic Policy Design),
- opinion dynamics,
- innovation spreading (Innovation spreading in ancient times),
- cultural dispersion (Romanization spreading in ancient Tunisia).
- Data-driven models on different scales
- agent-based models (ABMs),
- stochastic metapopulation models,
- ODE/SDE compartmental models.
- Mathematics for stochastic ABMs
- Analytical approaches for the systems behavior in the limit of large agent number
- Model reduction techniques, e.g. usinng Galerkin projection, ODE approximations
- Computational study of emerging phenomena e.g. metastability, tipping points.
- Network models and dynamics on/of these networks
- computational analysis of directed networks, cycle decomposition, non-reversible Markov processes
- random-walk-based clustering of undirected, directed, temporal networks
- identification of hubs and determining important pathways.