Elisabeth zu-Erbach-Schoenberg

Position: Postgraduate Research Student
Institution: Management (FBL)
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My first degree is a Diploma (combined Bachelor's and Master's degree) in Bioinformatics from the University of Jena. During my masters, I specialised in artificial life, systems biology and ecological modelling.

I am currently in my second year of the DTC Complex Systems Simulation programme run by the ICSS.

I am working on the simulation of processes happening on social networks and the dynamic changes of social networks. I am especially interested in systems where the two level interact. Most of the research on social networks assumes that the actors in the network are homogeneous. I am planning to investigate to which extent this simplifying assumption influences the model results by building simple, abstract models that nevertheless incorporate some degree of heterogeneity between nodes or edges. Heterogeneity of nodes is often due to the way actors are embedded in their environment, for example their location in space. I am interested in how social network change is influenced by the space nodes are located in and in turn, how the social network influences the spatial arrangement of the actors.