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#JobAlert – If you are a postdoctoral researcher eager to advance complex systems research and its applications in network medicine and health data science – and if you share a commitment to improving society and our planet through science – this is your chance:
👉 csh.jobs.personio.com/job/2463342
December 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Making migration work – CSH's Ljubica Nedelkoska delivered a keynote at the 2025 Conference of the European Migration Network in Lithuania on this highly relevant topic for Europe.

🔗 www.emn.lt/emn-conferen...
🖼️ Irmantas Gelūnas
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited to welcome Juri Haumer!
Juri is a PhD candidate specializing in #supplychains, with a strong focus on modelling socio-metabolic systems using approaches from complexity science and network theory. His work is primarily embedded in the REMASS project.

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December 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🇪🇺 Europe needs real-time supply-chain intelligence.
In the #EuropeanParliament, we discussed how data can reveal strategic dependencies, systemic risks, and resilience gaps – and why this matters for Europe’s competitiveness and autonomy.
➡️ strategy paper: www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/de...
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
There are many uncertainties about what work will look like in the future: What will fundamentally change through AI? Which jobs will disappear, which new ones will emerge? These questions – and many more – are at the core of our upcoming #CSHWinterSchool
Apply by Jan 11 – csh.ac.at/education/wi...
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Only a handful of seats are still available. If you’d like to join us for this special event, please register here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
csh.ac.at/events/what-...
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Additionally, Liuhuaying Yang, from @csh.ac.at, has created Urban Thirst, a fantastic visualization that captures the different aspects of water availability in cities.
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Urban Thirst
Does urban sprawl make water and sanitation harder to reach and more expensive?
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December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Compact urban design is key to securing water and sanitation, a new study by CSH and the World Bank in #NatureCities shows. With horizontal city growth, 220M fewer people could have access to piped water and 190M to sewage by 2050, says lead author @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social

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Urban Sprawl Could Deny 220 Million People Access To Clean Water By 2050
A study by CSH and the World Bank shows compact urban planning is crucial for delivering water and sanitation to growing populations.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
💫 It was a great honor to welcome Federal Minister Peter Hanke from the Bundesministerium für Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur #BMIMI to the Complexity Science Hub this week, where we discussed how insights from data-driven complex systems research can support political decision-making.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Super cool event coming up ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Fresh from receiving the 2025 netidee SCIENCE Award, CSH's Frank Neffke joined the discussion at this year’s #netideeTalk2025. On stage, Frank and fellow awardees explored how AI is reshaping software development and the economy.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
As estates go digital, new questions arise 📜💰. Last week at CSH, experts discussed cryptocurrency inheritance and its emerging challenges, highlighting legal frameworks, forensic issues, and practical estate management.
@behas.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Cities are often seen as hotbeds of violence, with the assumption that bigger cities are more dangerous. New research by @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social ( @csh.ac.at ) and @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social ( @exeter.ac.uk ), published in #NatComms, highlights that 𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.
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People In Isolated Cities Suffer More Violence Against Civilians
New study from the Complexity Science Hub and the University of Exeter reveals that city isolation, not size, may drive political violence in Africa.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🏆 Congratulations, Frank Neffke! He received the 2025 #𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 and will explore why software development concentrates in just a few regions like Silicon Valley or Bangalore.
@fwf-at.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We're welcoming Elise Cutts as our FRONTIERS Journalist in Residence! Starting Feb, she'll explore how researchers build fundamental theories of #ComplexSystems. This is the 2nd time CSH has hosted an @frontiersmedia.bsky.social fellow. Welcome, @elisecutts.bsky.social! shorturl.at/UgzTW
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* News * CSH Welcomes FRONTIERS Journalist Elise Cutts%
Elise Cutts is among the seven journalists chosen for the third round of the European Research Council’s science journalism initiative
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November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
An investigation reveals how cryptocurrency exchanges profit from crime while victims lose everything. @behas.bsky.social helped analyze a €20 million loss for an Austrian investor. "Money laundering networks are like onions. To catch the masterminds, you have to peel deeper." shorturl.at/KwY3a
Die Spur der Coins: Krypto-Börsen und dunkle Milliarden
Alleine in den vergangenen beiden Jahren flossen mehr als 27 Milliarden Dollar an schmutzigem Geld zu Krypto-Börsen – ein Einfallstor für Kriminelle. Nun gewährt eine internationale Recherche, an der ...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Between 1850 and 1910 the population of Vienna almost quadrupled, from about half a million, to two million. During this Golden Age of Science and Culture, more than half of the Viennese population came from outside Vienna, and a significant share came from outside what today constitutes Austria.
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This is her year. Congratulations to Liuhuaying Yang, @csh.ac.at visualization expert, on receiving @wien.gv.at #Förderpreis! Earlier this year, she won two gold medals at the Information is Beautiful Awards and her work is now displayed at the Wien Museum.

📸 Stadt Wien / Markus Wache
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
How can car traffic in cities be reduced? New research by CSH's @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social shows that while metros are effective in reducing car traffic, a study of nearly 400 European cities finds no evidence that trams have the same effect: csh.ac.at/news/metros-...
Metros Cut Car Use In European Cities – Trams Fall Short
People drive significantly less in European cities with a metro system than in cities that only have trams or no rail-based public transport at all.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ready to tackle the world’s most complex challenges?
We are looking for #PhD candidates eager to apply large-scale data analysis, quantitative models, and complexity science to shed light on pressing global issues.
csh.ac.at/education/gr...
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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In our next #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 12 Nov, Rafael Prieto-Curiel @csh.ac.at will explore the challenges of making cities work for everyone while facing dual challenges of managing both expansion and contraction at a time of rapid future population expansion
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Cities for everyone
In this talk, Rafael Prieto-Curiel will explore the challenges of making cities work for everyone. Previously, Rafael worked on urban dynamics as part of…
www.inet.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📺 Are we stuck in an energy dilemma? And if so, how can we solve it? Stefan Thurner, president of the Complexity Science Hub, discussed these questions on #NANOTalk on #3sat.

▶️ If you’d like to listen in, here’s the episode (in German):
www.3sat.de/wissen/nano-...
Klimawandel, Ressourcenmangel, Energieknappheit: Was kommt als Nächstes? / NANO Talk
Wie gut verstehen wir Energie? Stephanie Rohde diskutiert mit Gästen, wie wir der Klimakrise und Ressourcenknappheit begegnen können.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Sometimes old school really is such a cool way to explore data! No screens, no VR – but puzzles 🧩 and pop-up cards 💌.

This week, CSH data visualization specialist Liuhuaying Yang presented some of her projects at the IEEE VIS 2025 conference. And she decided to go full hands-on.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Snag one of the last spots for the 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐲!

📅 When: Nov 12, 2025
📍 Where: Van Swieten Saal, Van-Swieten-Gasse 1a, Vienna
🎯 Who: Open to all Postdocs from Austrian research institutions
🔗 Register here: cc.lbg.ac.at/careerday/
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
👏👏👏 Kudos to our 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞 research group! Led by Peter Turchin, the team has been awarded an FWF grant to assess the resilience of historic and modern societies, and to identify main factors that contribute to instability and crisis.
www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-...
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM