Simplifier of things. bridgewalker. Island-person. Nets and Complexity. Prof of Biodiversity Theory. Former Prof. of Computer Science, Reader in Eng. Maths. Once a Physicist. Interested in art and language and generally making the world a better place.
Thilo Gross
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This was a fun project. Working with some old but very cool maths... #netsci people will like.
#3/5 of our open Postdoc positions will critically examine mathematical modelling from a human angle and seek to empower people to discuss and question mathematical models.
We believe that if models can be challenged in new ways, modeling can only profit.
#human_progress
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I am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context.
We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions!
I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview:
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#1 of 5 open PostDoc posts will study how the words we use reveal our thinking about the marine environment.
Did you know that most prospective marine protected areas are named after sea-floor features?
And, who has the power to name areas, species, etc? How does this affect the research agenda?
I always thought that dark academia was a sub-genre of fiction. Anyway, this is worth reading ...
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The second of our five new #human_progress postdoc positions will analyse maritime logbooks and other materials from the www.prizepapers.de dataset, a large collection of documents captured by pirates! Let's find out what they reveal about the oceans! hifmb.de/institute/hi...
Mind the gap! Next stop: Biodiversity Theory
Our working group just digitized our research landscape using a classic London Tube map design. Every line is a team member; every station is a core topic or application we tackle.
Check it out and see where our work interconnects!
The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...
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The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...
Paper alert! Did you ever think that counting the many different structures you can get from the chemical composition is hard? We've got the paper that shows you how to do it.
Here's the newest publication by Rana Shojaei (@ranashj.bsky.social) and Thilo Gross (@thilogross.bsky.social).
My master's thesis got published in Physical Review E🥳! Thanks to @thilogross.bsky.social for the supervision. We develop a meta-community opinion model and use a master stability function approach to find conditions where pattern formation facilitates diversity. Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.15377
I am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context.
We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions!
I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview:
hifmb.de/institute/hi...
The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...
The spatial organization of individuals and their interactions in communities are important factors known to preserve diversity in many complex systems. Inspired by metapopulation models from ecology,...
