Dirk Helbing

http://www.coss.ethz.ch/

Dirk est un physicien et professeur de sociologie à Zurich.

Dirk Helbing studied physics and mathematics at the [University of Göttingen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen).[_[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)_] He completed his doctoral thesis at [Stuttgart University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_University), on modeling social processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, [stochastic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic) methods, and [complex systems theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_systems_theory). In 1996, he completed further studies on traffic dynamics and optimization.

In 1998 he became Managing Director of the Institute for Transport and Economics at [Dresden University of Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_University_of_Technology), and in 2000, became a full [professor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor). In 2008, Helbing was elected as a member of the [German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Academy_of_Sciences_Leopoldina). He heads the [ETH Zurich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich) Competence Center "Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems" and the "Physics of Socio-Economic Systems" Division of the [Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physikalische_Gesellschaft) (German Physical Society).

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