We are happy to announce the upcoming event of the 
Data Science @ BOKU initiative together with 
Complexity Science Hub @ BOKU

BOKU meets CSH

on April 9th 2026 14:00 - 18:00 in Gregor Mendel Str 33, Festsaal

Since the beginning of 2023, BOKU is a member of the Complexity Science Hub (CSH)(https://csh.ac.at). Founded in 2016, the CSH conducts research on complex systems, i.e. systems in which multiple components interact dynamically, giving rise to emergent behaviour that cannot be inferred from the properties of individual components alone. Examples include social networks, supply chains, financial markets, ecological systems, and global environmental change.

This workshop aims to explore existing collaborations between BOKU and CSH and to identify new research synergies at the interface of environmental sciences, social-ecological systems, data science, and complexity research.

Program

14:00–14:20 — Welcome & Introduction

  • Welcome from BOKU - Karsten / Fernando
  • Introduction to CSH – Philipp Marxgut/Leonardo Ialongo

14:20–15:40 — Block 1: CSH–BOKU Collaborations

  • Eddie Lee (Postdoc with Mario Pesendorfer – Institute of Forest Ecology) – Biological scaling and forest dynamics (10 min)
  • Harry Fox (DIS PhD with Melanie Pichler – Institute of Social Ecology) – Collective decision-making and inequality (10 min)
  • Dominik Wiedenhofer (Institute of Social Ecology) & Giacomo Zelbi (CSH)- Investigating the Resilience and Malleability of Social Metabolism (REMASS) (15 min)
  • Daniel Kondor (CSH) – Social complexity / transportation systems (10 min)
  • Leonardo Ialongo (CSH) – Supply chains (10 min)

15:40–16:10 — Coffee Break

16:10–17:30 — Block 2: Potential Connections from the BOKU Side

  • David Kreil (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology) – Distilling signal from noise in multi-omics data integration: Effective risk stratification on multi-partite graphs by Variation of information fused Layers of Networks (ViLoN) (10 min)
  • Brady Mattsson-Jendrik Windt (Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management) – Modeling flows of services provided by migratory species in North America (10 min)
  • Dražen Petrov (Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation) – Molecular modeling of soil organic matter: from mechanisms to macroscale behavior (10 min)
  • Yasin El Abiead (Institute of Analytical Chemistry) – Metabolomics at scale: the shift toward big-data metabolism (10 min)
  • Plenary discussion and identification of next steps

17:30 — Informal Get-Together

  • Networking and drinks

If you would like to participate in the event, please register by March 23rd with your name and your BOKU standard e-mail address via the following registration application (Termino):

For more information, please visit: https://short.boku.ac.at/complexity-science-hub-boku