Prof. Dirk Brockmann

Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Northwestern University Transportation Center
Email_icons_099 brockmann (@northwestern.edu)

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Job Opening: Postdoctoral Position on Predictive Modeling of Cancer and Epigenetic Networks page2_sidebar_2details
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Numb3rs: Scratch – Charlie Eppes and Nancy Hackett use “Dirk Brockmann’s work with human mobility networks” to predict the location of a future robbery in this episode of the CBS show.

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The Origin of "Where's George"-Research – How an old school friend triggered the study of dollar bill movements that led to the discovery of the scaling laws of human travel. page2_sidebar_2pdf
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Follow the Money: Human Mobility and Effective Communities – A five-minute video on how to use dollar bills to identify effective communities in the US.
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H1N1 Outbreak 2009 ("Swine Flu") – At the onset of the pandemic we used computer simulations to project the time course of the flu in the United States.
Tour de Sys: The Traveler's View of a Network – A two-minute video on how we simplify a complex network and study its statistical properties from different perspectives.

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Computational Epidemiology

A main focus of our research is the understanding of the dynamics of human infectious diseases. We develop computational models, new analytic and numerical techniques and large-scale quantitative and predictive computer simulations to study various aspects of the dynamics of epidemics. page2_sidebar_2more...

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Complex Networks and Human Mobility

Another key focus of our work is to reach a deeper understanding of complex biological and artificial networks. Particularly in connection to our research on spatial disease dynamics we are interested in the structure and properties of human mobility networks. page2_sidebar_2more...

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Complex Dynamics in Biological Systems

Using methods from systems biology, nonlinear dynamics, and stochastic processes we investigate the dynamics of these biological systems in a number of projects, e.g. we investigate facilitated target localization of transcription factors on DNA based on intersegment transfer. page2_sidebar_2more...

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Anomalous Diffusion and Fractional Transport

We investigate anomalous diffusion processes that evolve in structured environments or are subject to spatially variable forces or potentials. We develop new theoretical frameworks for their description in terms of fractional Fokker–Planck equations. page2_sidebar_2more...