Dirk Brockmann

Dirk Brockmann, born in 1969, is a professor at the Institute of Biology at Berlin’s Humboldt University. He is also the head of a research group at the Robert Koch Institute. Previously, he was a professor of applied mathematics at Northwestern University in the US and a researcher at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. He is particularly interested in the structures inherent to complex biological and social networks, and how these structures affect those processes that operate within them.