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{{Short description|Complex-systems scientist}}
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| name = Dirk Helbing
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|January 19, 1965}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|January 19, 1965}}
| birth_place = [[Aalen]], Germany <ref name="NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing">{{Cite web|url=http://podium.nzz.ch/person/prof-dr-dirk-helbing/|title=NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing|website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Aalen]], Germany<ref name="NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing">{{Cite web|url=http://podium.nzz.ch/person/prof-dr-dirk-helbing/|title=NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing|website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>
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| residence = Switzerland
| nationality = German
| nationality = German
| alma_mater = [[University of Göttingen]] (1986)<ref name="NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing">{{Cite web|url=http://podium.nzz.ch/person/prof-dr-dirk-helbing/|title=NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing|website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>
| alma_mater = [[University of Göttingen]] (1986)<ref name="NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing"/>
| doctoral_advisor = Wolfgang Weidlich
| doctoral_advisor = Wolfgang Weidlich
| academic_advisors = [[Manfred R. Schroeder]]
| academic_advisors = [[Manfred R. Schroeder]]
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| field = [[Complex Systems]], [[Computational Social Science]]
| field = [[Complex Systems]], [[Computational Social Science]]
| work_institution = [[ETH Zurich]] (2007-)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coss.ethz.ch/people/helbing.html|title=Helbing, Dirk, Prof. Dr|website=www.ethz.ch|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><hr>
| work_institution = [[ETH Zurich]] (2007–)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coss.ethz.ch/people/helbing.html|title=Helbing, Dirk, Prof. Dr|website=www.ethz.ch|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><hr>
[[TU Delft]] (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/research/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/people/|title=People|website=www.tudelft.nl|access-date=2017-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725220730/http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/research/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/people/|archive-date=2016-07-25|url-status=dead}}</ref><hr>
[[TU Delft]] (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/research/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/people/|title=People|website=www.tudelft.nl|access-date=2017-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725220730/http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/research/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/people/|archive-date=2016-07-25|url-status=dead}}</ref><hr>
[[University of Oxford]] (2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/704|title=Professor Dirk Helbing, "Cooperation, Norms and Conflict: Towards Stimulating the Foundations of Society"|website=Oxford Martin|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><br> (host: [[Peter Hedström]])<hr>
[[University of Oxford]] (2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/704|title=Professor Dirk Helbing, "Cooperation, Norms and Conflict: Towards Stimulating the Foundations of Society"|website=Oxford Martin|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><br> (host: [[Peter Hedström]])<hr>
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[[INRETS]] (2004)<br>(host: Patrick Lebacque)<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/0-387-25805-1_15 |chapter=Self-Organized Control of Irregular or Perturbed Network Traffic |title=Optimal Control and Dynamic Games |volume=7 |pages=239–74 |series=Advances in Computational Management Science |year=2005 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Lämmer |first2=Stefan |last3=Lebacque |first3=Jean-Patrick |isbn=0-387-25804-3 |arxiv=physics/0511018 |s2cid=13493932 }}</ref><hr>
[[INRETS]] (2004)<br>(host: Patrick Lebacque)<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/0-387-25805-1_15 |chapter=Self-Organized Control of Irregular or Perturbed Network Traffic |title=Optimal Control and Dynamic Games |volume=7 |pages=239–74 |series=Advances in Computational Management Science |year=2005 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Lämmer |first2=Stefan |last3=Lebacque |first3=Jean-Patrick |isbn=0-387-25804-3 |arxiv=physics/0511018 |s2cid=13493932 }}</ref><hr>
[[TU Dresden]] (2000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tu-dresden.de/bu/verkehr/ivw/osv/die-professur/beschaeftigte|title=Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen|website=www.tu-dresden.de|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><hr>
[[TU Dresden]] (2000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tu-dresden.de/bu/verkehr/ivw/osv/die-professur/beschaeftigte|title=Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen|website=www.tu-dresden.de|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><hr>
Collegium Budapest, Hungary (2000) <ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/35035023 |pmid=11028994 |year=2000 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |title=Simulating dynamical features of escape panic |journal=Nature |volume=407 |issue=6803 |pages=487–90 |last2=Farkas |first2=Illés |last3=Vicsek |first3=Tamás |bibcode=2000Natur.407..487H |arxiv=cond-mat/0009448 |s2cid=310346 }}</ref><hr>
Collegium Budapest, Hungary (2000)<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/35035023 |pmid=11028994 |year=2000 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |title=Simulating dynamical features of escape panic |journal=Nature |volume=407 |issue=6803 |pages=487–90 |last2=Farkas |first2=Illés |last3=Vicsek |first3=Tamás |bibcode=2000Natur.407..487H |arxiv=cond-mat/0009448 |s2cid=310346 }}</ref><hr>
[[Tel Aviv University]] (1999)<br>(hosts: Isaac Goldhirsch, [[Eshel Ben-Jacob]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Helbing |first=Dirk |date=1998 |title=A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media: From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences |url=https://www.springer.com/br/book/9783540639954|location=Berlin |publisher=Springer |page=122 |isbn=978-3-662-14190-8}}</ref><hr>
[[Tel Aviv University]] (1999)<br>(hosts: Isaac Goldhirsch, [[Eshel Ben-Jacob]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Helbing |first=Dirk |date=1998 |title=A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media: From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences |url=https://www.springer.com/br/book/9783540639954|location=Berlin |publisher=Springer |page=122 |isbn=978-3-662-14190-8}}</ref><hr>
[[Eötvös Loránd University]] (1998)<br>(host: [[Tamás Vicsek]]) <hr>
[[Eötvös Loránd University]] (1998)<br>(host: [[Tamás Vicsek]]) <hr>
[[Xerox PARC]] (1998)<br>(host: [[Bernardo Huberman]])<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-59751-0_18 |chapter=Optimizing Traffic in Virtual and Real Space |title=Traffic and Granular Flow '99 |url=https://archive.org/details/trafficgranularf00weid |url-access=limited |pages=[https://archive.org/details/trafficgranularf00weid/page/n207 193]–204 |year=2000 |last1=Helbing |first1=D. |last2=Huberman |first2=B. A. |last3=Maurer |first3=S. M. |isbn=978-3-642-64109-1 |s2cid=119431705 }}</ref><hr>
[[Xerox PARC]] (1998)<br>(host: [[Bernardo Huberman]])<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-59751-0_18 |chapter=Optimizing Traffic in Virtual and Real Space |title=Traffic and Granular Flow '99 |url=https://archive.org/details/trafficgranularf00weid |url-access=limited |pages=[https://archive.org/details/trafficgranularf00weid/page/n207 193]–204 |year=2000 |last1=Helbing |first1=D. |last2=Huberman |first2=B. A. |last3=Maurer |first3=S. M. |isbn=978-3-642-64109-1 |s2cid=119431705 }}</ref><hr>
[[Weizmann Institute of Science]] (1997)<br>(host: David Mukamel) <ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.10 |title=Global Phase Diagram of a One-Dimensional Driven Lattice Gas |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=10–13 |year=1999 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Mukamel |first2=David |last3=Schütz |first3=Gunter M. |bibcode=1999PhRvL..82...10H |arxiv=cond-mat/9901158 |s2cid=52250340 }}</ref><hr>
[[Weizmann Institute of Science]] (1997)<br>(host: David Mukamel)<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.10 |title=Global Phase Diagram of a One-Dimensional Driven Lattice Gas |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=10–13 |year=1999 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Mukamel |first2=David |last3=Schütz |first3=Gunter M. |bibcode=1999PhRvL..82...10H |arxiv=cond-mat/9901158 |s2cid=52250340 }}</ref><hr>
[[University of Stuttgart]] (1996)<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.58.133 |title=Generalized force model of traffic dynamics |journal=Physical Review E |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=133–138 |year=1998 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Tilch |first2=Benno |bibcode=1998PhRvE..58..133H |arxiv=cond-mat/9806243 |s2cid=119095859 }}</ref>
[[University of Stuttgart]] (1996)<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.58.133 |title=Generalized force model of traffic dynamics |journal=Physical Review E |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=133–138 |year=1998 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Tilch |first2=Benno |bibcode=1998PhRvE..58..133H |arxiv=cond-mat/9806243 |s2cid=119095859 }}</ref>
| prizes = Golden Idea Award 2012 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.idee-suisse.ch/Awards/Preisverleihungen/Golden-Idea-Award.19.html|title=Golden Idea Award|website=Idee Suisse|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>
| prizes = Golden Idea Award 2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.idee-suisse.ch/Awards/Preisverleihungen/Golden-Idea-Award.19.html|title=Golden Idea Award|website=Idee Suisse|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>
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Dirk Helbing studied physics and mathematics at the [[University of Göttingen]]. He completed his doctoral thesis at [[Stuttgart University]], on modeling social processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, [[stochastic]] methods, and [[complex systems theory]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://podium.nzz.ch/person/prof-dr-dirk-helbing/|title=NZZ Podium: Dirk Helbing|work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|access-date=2017-05-12|language=de-CH}}</ref> In 1996, he completed further studies on traffic dynamics and optimization.
Dirk Helbing studied physics and mathematics at the [[University of Göttingen]]. He completed his doctoral thesis at [[Stuttgart University]], on modeling social processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, [[stochastic]] methods, and [[complex systems theory]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://podium.nzz.ch/person/prof-dr-dirk-helbing/|title=NZZ Podium: Dirk Helbing|work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|access-date=2017-05-12|language=de-CH}}</ref> In 1996, he completed further studies on traffic dynamics and optimization.


In 2000, he became a full professor and Managing Director of the Institute for Transport and Economics at [[Dresden University of Technology]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tu-dresden.de/bu/verkehr/ivw/osv/die-professur/beschaeftigte|title=Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen|website=TU Dresden|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> Helbing was elected as a member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]] in 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.leopoldina.org/de/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/member/1327/|title=Mitgliederverzeichnis|website=www.leopoldina.org|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> and of the [[World Academy of Art and Science]] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldacademy.org/view/general-listing|title=World Academy of Art & Science: General Listing|website=www.worldacademy.org|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> In January 2014 Prof. Helbing received an honorary PhD from [[Delft University of Technology]] (TU Delft).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://delftoutlook.tudelft.nl/article/honorary-doctorates/|title=Honorary Doctorates - Delft Outlook|work=Delft Outlook|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/portraet/auszeichnungen/ehrungen-und-preise-an-eth-angehoerige-2014.html|title=Ehrungen und Preise an ETH-Angehörige 2014|website=www.ethz.ch|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926190903/https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/portraet/auszeichnungen/ehrungen-und-preise-an-eth-angehoerige-2014.html|archive-date=2017-09-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since June 2015 he is affiliate professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft, where he leads the PhD school in "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/research/projects/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/|title=PhD Program in Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future|website=TU Delft|language=nl-NL|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>
In 2000, he became a full professor and Managing Director of the Institute for Transport and Economics at [[Dresden University of Technology]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tu-dresden.de/bu/verkehr/ivw/osv/die-professur/beschaeftigte|title=Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen|website=TU Dresden|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> Helbing was elected as a member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]] in 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.leopoldina.org/de/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/member/1327/|title=Mitgliederverzeichnis|website=www.leopoldina.org|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> and of the [[World Academy of Art and Science]] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldacademy.org/view/general-listing|title=World Academy of Art & Science: General Listing|website=www.worldacademy.org|access-date=2017-05-12|archive-date=2019-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328062055/http://worldacademy.org/view/general-listing|url-status=dead}}</ref> In January 2014 Prof. Helbing received an honorary PhD from [[Delft University of Technology]] (TU Delft).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://delftoutlook.tudelft.nl/article/honorary-doctorates/|title=Honorary Doctorates - Delft Outlook|work=Delft Outlook|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/portraet/auszeichnungen/ehrungen-und-preise-an-eth-angehoerige-2014.html|title=Ehrungen und Preise an ETH-Angehörige 2014|website=www.ethz.ch|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926190903/https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/portraet/auszeichnungen/ehrungen-und-preise-an-eth-angehoerige-2014.html|archive-date=2017-09-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since June 2015 he is affiliate professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft, where he leads the PhD school in "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/research/projects/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/|title=PhD Program in Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future|website=TU Delft|language=nl-NL|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref>

In 2022, Dirk was teaching a lecture regarding social system for ethical discussions. During the lecture, he was comparing Chinese students particularly with criminal groups as a way to motivate an “educational discussion” according to his words. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Liule Yang on LinkedIn: #ethzurich #ETH #Asianhate {{!}} 133 comments |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/liule-yang-1386b0165_ethzurich-eth-asianhate-activity-6902371496334086144-3GK6 |access-date=2022-02-26 |website=www.linkedin.com |language=en}}</ref>At the same time, he pretended to apologize for hurting students who attended the lecture. The issue is still under wild discussion and shall be updated soon.


== Research activities ==
== Research activities ==


Dirk Helbing started out as a physicist. His diploma thesis focussed on pedestrian, crowd, and evacuation modeling and simulation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Helbing|first=Dirk|date=1990-01-01|title=Physikalische Modellierung des dynamischen Verhaltens von Fußgängern (Physical Modeling of the Dynamic Behavior of Pedestrians)|journal=SSRN Electronic Journal|ssrn=2413177|doi=10.2139/ssrn.2413177}}</ref> During his PhD and habilitation in physics,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Stochastische Methoden, nichtlineare Dynamik und quantitative Modelle sozialer Prozesse|last=Dirk.|first=Helbing|date=1996-01-01|publisher=Shaker|isbn=9783861115472|oclc=75838775}}</ref> he helped to establish the fields of socio-, econo- and traffic physics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/survival-kuenstler-sie-verstehen-zu-ueberleben-1.910224|title=Sie verstehen zu überleben|last=Anhäuser|first=Marcus|date=2010-05-19|work=sueddeutsche.de|access-date=2017-05-12|language=de|issn=0174-4917}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Treiber|first2=Martin|date=1998-12-11|title=Jams, Waves, and Clusters|journal=Science|volume=282|issue=5396|pages=2001–2003|doi=10.1126/science.282.5396.2001|s2cid=60811443|issn=0036-8075}}</ref> He was also co-founder of the Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division of the German Physical Society (DPG).<ref>Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. 2009. “Arbeitskreis ‘Physik Sozio-ökonomischer Systeme’ Gegründet.” http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/soe/historie/phbl.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607084138/http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/soe/historie/phbl.html |date=2017-06-07 }}</ref> As a visiting scientist at [[Tel Aviv University]] and the [[Weizmann Institute of Science|Weizmann Institute]] in Israel, the [[Eötvös Loránd University|Eötvös University]] in Budapest, and [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]] in California, he focused on a broad variety of complex systems - including the self-organisation of pedestrians,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282 |title=Social force model for pedestrian dynamics |journal=Physical Review E |volume=51 |issue=5 |pages=4282–4286 |year=1995 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Molnár |first2=Péter |pmid=9963139 |bibcode=1995PhRvE..51.4282H |arxiv=cond-mat/9805244 |s2cid=29333691 }}</ref> traffic jams,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/25499 |title=Coherent moving states in highway traffic |journal=Nature |volume=396 |issue=6713 |pages=738–740 |year=1998 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Huberman |first2=Bernardo A. |bibcode=1998Natur.396..738H |arxiv=cond-mat/9805025 |s2cid=18430246 }}</ref> bacterial patterns,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00093-5 |title=Bacterial cooperative organization under antibiotic stress |journal=Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications |volume=282 |issue=1–2 |pages=247–282 |year=2000 |last1=Ben-Jacob |first1=Eshel |last2=Cohen |first2=Inon |last3=Golding |first3=Ido |last4=Gutnick |first4=David L. |last5=Tcherpakov |first5=Marianna |last6=Helbing |first6=Dirk |last7=Ron |first7=Ilan G. |bibcode=2000PhyA..282..247B }}</ref> and Mexican waves.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Farkas|first1=I.|last2=Helbing|first2=D.|last3=Vicsek|first3=T.|title=Social behaviour: Mexican waves in an excitable medium|journal=Nature|volume=419|issue=6903|pages=131–132|doi=10.1038/419131a|year=2002|bibcode=2002Natur.419..131F|arxiv=cond-mat/0210073|pmid=12226653|s2cid=4309609}}</ref> At [[TU Dresden|Dresden University of Technology]] he became the Managing Director of the Institute of Transport & Economics,<ref>{{cite web|title=Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen|url=https://tu-dresden.de/bu/verkehr/ivw/osv/die-professur/beschaeftigte|access-date=2017-05-10|last=TU Dresden|language=de}}</ref> worked on traffic assistant systems (i.e. early self-driving cars)<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.3141/1999-10 |title=General Lane-Changing Model MOBIL for Car-Following Models |journal=Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board |volume=1999 |pages=86–94 |year=2007 |last1=Kesting |first1=Arne |last2=Treiber |first2=Martin |last3=Helbing |first3=Dirk |s2cid=39345746 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-47641-2_62 |chapter=Jam-Avoiding Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and its Impact on Traffic Dynamics |title=Traffic and Granular Flow'05 |pages=633–43 |year=2007 |last1=Kesting |first1=Arne |last2=Treiber |first2=Martin |last3=Schönhof |first3=Martin |last4=Kranke |first4=Florian |last5=Helbing |first5=Dirk |isbn=978-3-540-47640-5 |s2cid=17325754 }}</ref> and a self-organized traffic light control system,<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-32160-3_6 |chapter=Self-Organized Network Flows |title=Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks |volume=2062 |pages=335–55 |series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics |year=2013 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Siegmeier |first2=Jan |last3=Lämmer |first3=Stefan |isbn=978-3-642-32159-7 |arxiv=physics/0702173 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2010/09/traffic-lights-adapt/|title=Adaptive Traffic Lights Could Achieve 'The Green Wave'|last=News|first=Rachel Ehrenberg, Science|work=WIRED|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/stadt/Die-revolutionaere-Idee-des-Professors-Der-Verkehr-steuert-die-Ampeln/story/20577286|title=Die revolutionäre Idee des Professors: Der Verkehr steuert die Ampeln|last=Haene|first=Stefan|date=2012-05-14|work=Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger|access-date=2017-05-12|language=de|issn=1422-9994}}</ref> which was patented.<ref>{{citation|surname1=Dirk Helbing, Stefan Lammer|title=Method For Coordination of Concurrent Processes or for Control of the Transport of Mobile Units Within a Network|issue=US20080235398 A1|date=2008-09-25|language=de|url=https://www.google.com/patents/US20080235398|access-date=2017-05-10
Dirk Helbing started out as a physicist. His diploma thesis focussed on pedestrian, crowd, and evacuation modeling and simulation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Helbing|first=Dirk|date=1990-01-01|title=Physikalische Modellierung des dynamischen Verhaltens von Fußgängern (Physical Modeling of the Dynamic Behavior of Pedestrians)|journal=SSRN Electronic Journal|ssrn=2413177|doi=10.2139/ssrn.2413177}}</ref> During his PhD and habilitation in physics,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Stochastische Methoden, nichtlineare Dynamik und quantitative Modelle sozialer Prozesse|last=Dirk.|first=Helbing|date=1996-01-01|publisher=Shaker|isbn=9783861115472|oclc=75838775}}</ref> he helped to establish the fields of socio-, econo- and traffic physics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/survival-kuenstler-sie-verstehen-zu-ueberleben-1.910224|title=Sie verstehen zu überleben|last=Anhäuser|first=Marcus|date=2010-05-19|work=sueddeutsche.de|access-date=2017-05-12|language=de|issn=0174-4917}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Treiber|first2=Martin|date=1998-12-11|title=Jams, Waves, and Clusters|journal=Science|volume=282|issue=5396|pages=2001–2003|doi=10.1126/science.282.5396.2001|s2cid=60811443|issn=0036-8075}}</ref> He was also co-founder of the Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division of the German Physical Society (DPG).<ref>Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. 2009. “Arbeitskreis ‘Physik Sozio-ökonomischer Systeme’ Gegründet.” http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/soe/historie/phbl.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607084138/http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/soe/historie/phbl.html |date=2017-06-07 }}</ref> As a visiting scientist at [[Tel Aviv University]] and the [[Weizmann Institute of Science|Weizmann Institute]] in Israel, the [[Eötvös Loránd University|Eötvös University]] in Budapest, and [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]] in California, he focused on a broad variety of complex systems - including the self-organisation of pedestrians,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282 |title=Social force model for pedestrian dynamics |journal=Physical Review E |volume=51 |issue=5 |pages=4282–4286 |year=1995 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Molnár |first2=Péter |pmid=9963139 |bibcode=1995PhRvE..51.4282H |arxiv=cond-mat/9805244 |s2cid=29333691 }}</ref> traffic jams,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/25499 |title=Coherent moving states in highway traffic |journal=Nature |volume=396 |issue=6713 |pages=738–740 |year=1998 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Huberman |first2=Bernardo A. |bibcode=1998Natur.396..738H |arxiv=cond-mat/9805025 |s2cid=18430246 }}</ref> bacterial patterns,<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00093-5 |title=Bacterial cooperative organization under antibiotic stress |journal=Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications |volume=282 |issue=1–2 |pages=247–282 |year=2000 |last1=Ben-Jacob |first1=Eshel |last2=Cohen |first2=Inon |last3=Golding |first3=Ido |last4=Gutnick |first4=David L. |last5=Tcherpakov |first5=Marianna |last6=Helbing |first6=Dirk |last7=Ron |first7=Ilan G. |bibcode=2000PhyA..282..247B }}</ref> and Mexican waves.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Farkas|first1=I.|last2=Helbing|first2=D.|last3=Vicsek|first3=T.|title=Social behaviour: Mexican waves in an excitable medium|journal=Nature|volume=419|issue=6903|pages=131–132|doi=10.1038/419131a|year=2002|bibcode=2002Natur.419..131F|arxiv=cond-mat/0210073|pmid=12226653|s2cid=4309609}}</ref> At [[TU Dresden|Dresden University of Technology]] he became the Managing Director of the Institute of Transport & Economics,<ref>{{cite web|title=Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen|url=https://tu-dresden.de/bu/verkehr/ivw/osv/die-professur/beschaeftigte|access-date=2017-05-10|last=TU Dresden|language=de}}</ref> worked on traffic assistant systems (i.e. early self-driving cars)<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.3141/1999-10 |title=General Lane-Changing Model MOBIL for Car-Following Models |journal=Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board |volume=1999 |pages=86–94 |year=2007 |last1=Kesting |first1=Arne |last2=Treiber |first2=Martin |last3=Helbing |first3=Dirk |s2cid=39345746 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-47641-2_62 |chapter=Jam-Avoiding Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and its Impact on Traffic Dynamics |title=Traffic and Granular Flow'05 |pages=633–43 |year=2007 |last1=Kesting |first1=Arne |last2=Treiber |first2=Martin |last3=Schönhof |first3=Martin |last4=Kranke |first4=Florian |last5=Helbing |first5=Dirk |isbn=978-3-540-47640-5 |s2cid=17325754 }}</ref> and a self-organized traffic light control system,<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-32160-3_6 |chapter=Self-Organized Network Flows |title=Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks |volume=2062 |pages=335–55 |series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics |year=2013 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Siegmeier |first2=Jan |last3=Lämmer |first3=Stefan |isbn=978-3-642-32159-7 |arxiv=physics/0702173 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2010/09/traffic-lights-adapt/|title=Adaptive Traffic Lights Could Achieve 'The Green Wave'|last=News|first=Rachel Ehrenberg, Science|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/stadt/Die-revolutionaere-Idee-des-Professors-Der-Verkehr-steuert-die-Ampeln/story/20577286|title=Die revolutionäre Idee des Professors: Der Verkehr steuert die Ampeln|last=Haene|first=Stefan|date=2012-05-14|work=Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger|access-date=2017-05-12|language=de|issn=1422-9994}}</ref> which was patented.<ref>{{citation|surname1=Dirk Helbing, Stefan Lammer|title=Method For Coordination of Concurrent Processes or for Control of the Transport of Mobile Units Within a Network|issue=US20080235398 A1|date=2008-09-25|language=de|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080235398|access-date=2017-05-10
}}</ref> He found that crowd disasters are caused by a phenomenon called "crowd turbulence" and worked on ways to describe, reduce and respond to such disasters.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046109 |pmid=17500963 |title=Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study |journal=Physical Review E |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=046109 |year=2007 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Johansson |first2=Anders |last3=Al-Abideen |first3=Habib Zein |bibcode=2007PhRvE..75d6109H |arxiv=physics/0701203 |s2cid=21398961 }}</ref> As professor of Sociology at [[ETH Zurich]], he worked on evolutionary game theory<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000758 |pmid=20454464 |title=Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions |journal=PLOS Computational Biology |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=e1000758 |year=2010 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Szolnoki |first2=Attila |last3=Perc |first3=Matjaž |last4=Szabó |first4=György |bibcode=2010PLSCB...6E0758H |pmc=2861625|arxiv=1003.3165 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083005 |title=Punish, but not too hard: How costly punishment spreads in the spatial public goods game |journal=New Journal of Physics |volume=12 |issue=8 |pages=083005 |year=2010 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Szolnoki |first2=Attila |last3=Perc |first3=Matjaž |last4=Szabó |first4=György |bibcode=2010NJPh...12h3005H |arxiv=1007.0431 |s2cid=9443807 }}</ref> and agent-based computer simulations of social processes and phenomena.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-24004-1_2 |chapter=Agent-Based Modeling |title=Social Self-Organization |url=https://archive.org/details/socialselforgani00helb |url-access=limited |pages=[https://archive.org/details/socialselforgani00helb/page/n35 25]–70 |series=Understanding Complex Systems |year=2012 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |isbn=978-3-642-24003-4 }}</ref>
}}</ref> He found that crowd disasters are caused by a phenomenon called "crowd turbulence" and worked on ways to describe, reduce and respond to such disasters.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046109 |pmid=17500963 |title=Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study |journal=Physical Review E |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=046109 |year=2007 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Johansson |first2=Anders |last3=Al-Abideen |first3=Habib Zein |bibcode=2007PhRvE..75d6109H |arxiv=physics/0701203 |s2cid=21398961 }}</ref> As professor of Sociology at [[ETH Zurich]], he worked on evolutionary game theory<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000758 |pmid=20454464 |title=Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions |journal=PLOS Computational Biology |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=e1000758 |year=2010 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Szolnoki |first2=Attila |last3=Perc |first3=Matjaž |last4=Szabó |first4=György |bibcode=2010PLSCB...6E0758H |pmc=2861625|arxiv=1003.3165 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083005 |title=Punish, but not too hard: How costly punishment spreads in the spatial public goods game |journal=New Journal of Physics |volume=12 |issue=8 |pages=083005 |year=2010 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |last2=Szolnoki |first2=Attila |last3=Perc |first3=Matjaž |last4=Szabó |first4=György |bibcode=2010NJPh...12h3005H |arxiv=1007.0431 |s2cid=9443807 }}</ref> and agent-based computer simulations of social processes and phenomena.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-24004-1_2 |chapter=Agent-Based Modeling |title=Social Self-Organization |url=https://archive.org/details/socialselforgani00helb |url-access=limited |pages=[https://archive.org/details/socialselforgani00helb/page/n35 25]–70 |series=Understanding Complex Systems |year=2012 |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |isbn=978-3-642-24003-4 }}</ref>


The work of Prof. Helbing has been widely cited in the media and academia and he has written more than 10 papers in [[Nature (journal)|Nature]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Dirk Helbing Publications in Nature - Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=Dirk+Helbing&as_publication=Nature&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> [[Science (journal)|Science]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Dirk Helbing Publications in Science - Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=Dirk+Helbing&as_publication=Science&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> and [[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|PNAS]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dirk Helbing Publications in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=Dirk+Helbing&as_publication=Proceedings+of+the+National+Academy+of+Sciences&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> In 2012, he won the Idee Suisse Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Golden Idea Award|url=http://www.idee-suisse.ch/Awards/Preisverleihungen/Golden-Idea-Award.19.html|access-date=2017-05-10|last=www.inware.ch|language=de}}</ref> He co-founded the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems,<ref>{{cite web|title=Competence Center for "Coping with Crisis in Socio-Economic Systems"|publisher=ETH|url=http://www.ccss.ethz.ch/|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> the Risk Center,<ref>{{cite web|title=Risk Center Alumni|url=http://www.riskcenter.ethz.ch/people/risk-center-alumni.html|access-date=2017-05-10|last=ETH}}</ref> the Institute for Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP)<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. Dirk Helbing|url=http://www.coss.ethz.ch/people/helbing.html|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> and the Decision Science Laboratory (DeSciL).<ref>{{cite web|title=Decision Science Laboratory|url=https://www.descil.ethz.ch/|access-date=2017-05-10|last=ETH Zurich|language=de}}</ref> While coordinating the FuturICT initiative,<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr Seldon, I presume|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i|access-date=2017-05-10|date=2013-02-23|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{citation|surname1=Alexander Stirn|periodical=Die Zeit|title=EU-Forschungswettbewerb: Simulator für Soziales|location=Hamburg|issn=0044-2070|date=2012-04-10|language=de|url=http://www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/2012/03/Wissensbeschleuniger-FuturICT|access-date=2017-05-10
The work of Prof. Helbing has been widely cited in the media and academia and he has written more than 10 papers in [[Nature (journal)|Nature]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Dirk Helbing Publications in Nature - Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=Dirk+Helbing&as_publication=Nature&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> [[Science (journal)|Science]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Dirk Helbing Publications in Science - Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=Dirk+Helbing&as_publication=Science&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> and [[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|PNAS]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dirk Helbing Publications in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Google Scholar|url=https://scholar.google.ch/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=any&as_sauthors=Dirk+Helbing&as_publication=Proceedings+of+the+National+Academy+of+Sciences&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> In 2012, he won the Idee Suisse Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Golden Idea Award|url=http://www.idee-suisse.ch/Awards/Preisverleihungen/Golden-Idea-Award.19.html|access-date=2017-05-10|last=www.inware.ch|language=de}}</ref> He co-founded the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems,<ref>{{cite web|title=Competence Center for "Coping with Crisis in Socio-Economic Systems"|publisher=ETH|url=http://www.ccss.ethz.ch/|access-date=2017-05-10|language=de}}</ref> the Risk Center,<ref>{{cite web|title=Risk Center Alumni|url=http://www.riskcenter.ethz.ch/people/risk-center-alumni.html|access-date=2017-05-10|last=ETH|archive-date=2017-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428011629/http://www.riskcenter.ethz.ch/people/risk-center-alumni.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Institute for Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP)<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. Dirk Helbing|url=http://www.coss.ethz.ch/people/helbing.html|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> and the Decision Science Laboratory (DeSciL).<ref>{{cite web|title=Decision Science Laboratory|url=https://www.descil.ethz.ch/|access-date=2017-05-10|last=ETH Zurich|language=de}}</ref> While coordinating the FuturICT initiative,<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr Seldon, I presume|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i|access-date=2017-05-10|date=2013-02-23|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{citation|surname1=Alexander Stirn|periodical=Die Zeit|title=EU-Forschungswettbewerb: Simulator für Soziales|location=Hamburg|issn=0044-2070|date=2012-04-10|language=de|url=http://www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/2012/03/Wissensbeschleuniger-FuturICT|access-date=2017-05-10
}}</ref> he helped to further develop disciplines such as data science, computational social science, and global systems science in Europe.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Helbing|first=Dirk|title=Globally networked risks and how to respond|journal=Nature|volume=497|issue=7447|pages=51–59|doi=10.1038/nature12047|pmid=23636396|year=2013|bibcode=2013Natur.497...51H|s2cid=4428023}}</ref> This work resulted in the establishment of the Nervousnet Platform, a smartphone app enabling users to share data to be used to achieve scientific and social goals and lay the groundwork for digital democracy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Pournaras|first2=Evangelos|date=2015-11-05|title=Society: Build digital democracy|journal=Nature|volume=527|issue=7576|pages=33–34|doi=10.1038/527033a|pmid=26536943|bibcode=2015Natur.527...33H|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2017-02-22/offene-daten-fuer-eine-smarte-gesellschaft|title=Offene Daten für eine smarte Gesellschaft|website=www.netzwoche.ch|language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> Helbing worked for the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems.<ref>{{citation|surname1=World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems|editor-surname1= World Economic Forum|title=Perspectives on a Hyperconnected World: Insights from the Science of Complexity|date=January 2013|language=de|url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_PerspectivesHyperconnectedWorld_ExecutiveSummary_2013.pdf
}}</ref> he helped to further develop disciplines such as data science, computational social science, and global systems science in Europe.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Helbing|first=Dirk|title=Globally networked risks and how to respond|journal=Nature|volume=497|issue=7447|pages=51–59|doi=10.1038/nature12047|pmid=23636396|year=2013|bibcode=2013Natur.497...51H|s2cid=4428023}}</ref> This work resulted in the establishment of the Nervousnet Platform, a smartphone app enabling users to share data to be used to achieve scientific and social goals and lay the groundwork for digital democracy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Pournaras|first2=Evangelos|date=2015-11-05|title=Society: Build digital democracy|journal=Nature|volume=527|issue=7576|pages=33–34|doi=10.1038/527033a|pmid=26536943|bibcode=2015Natur.527...33H|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2017-02-22/offene-daten-fuer-eine-smarte-gesellschaft|title=Offene Daten für eine smarte Gesellschaft|website=www.netzwoche.ch|date=22 February 2017 |language=de|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> Helbing worked for the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems.<ref>{{citation|surname1=World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems|editor-surname1= World Economic Forum|title=Perspectives on a Hyperconnected World: Insights from the Science of Complexity|date=January 2013|language=de|url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_PerspectivesHyperconnectedWorld_ExecutiveSummary_2013.pdf
}}</ref> He was elected member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute<ref>{{cite web|title=Modeling suggests crowds are best navigated around the edges {{!}} Santa Fe Institute|url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/helbing-wired-crowd-movement-sociology|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> and now belongs to the External Faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.<ref>{{cite web|title=External Faculty|url=http://csh.ac.at/researchers/external_fellows.php|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522173904/http://csh.ac.at/researchers/external_fellows.php|archive-date=2017-05-22|last=Complexity Science Hub Vienna}}</ref> He sits in the Boards of the Global Brain Institute in Brussels<ref>{{cite web|title=Members|url=https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/|access-date=2017-05-10|last=The Global Brain Institute|language=de}}</ref> and the International Centre for Earth Simulation in Geneva.<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Dirk Helbing|url=http://www.icesfoundation.org/Pages/PersonProfile.aspx?id=20|access-date=2017-05-10|last=ICES Foundation|language=de}}</ref> He is also involved in the activities of "Staatslabor" (a Swiss government science initiative)<ref>{{cite web|title=Blockchain: Use-Cases im öffentlichen Sektor|publisher=staatslabor.ch|url=https://www.staatslabor.ch/en/node/35|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> as well as the establishment of the Blockchain [X]<ref>{{cite web|title=Blockchain[X] – Platform for Business, Government and Academia to profit from Blockchain|url=http://blockchainx.inn.ac/|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> initiative and the Blockchain Lab in Delft.<ref>{{cite web|title=Blockchain Labs: Faculty Team|url=http://www.blockchain-lab.org/#team|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mittelbayerische.de/wirtschaft-nachrichten/auf-dem-weg-zur-blockchain-gesellschaft-21840-art1608479.html|title=Auf dem Weg zur Blockchain-Gesellschaft|last=Burger|first=Stephanie|date=2018-01-29|website=Mittelbayerische|language=de|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref> He is a member of a Swiss governmental advisory group on the societal impact of digitization<ref>{{cite web|title=Bund ernennt Big-Data-Gruppe - gegen seinen Willen|url=http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2015-08-27/bund-ernennt-big-data-gruppe-gegen-seinen-willen|access-date=2017-05-03|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Digitalisierte Gesellschaft|url=https://www.leopoldina.org/de/politikberatung/wissenschaftliche-kommissionen/digitalisierte-gesellschaft/|access-date=2017-05-03|language=de}}</ref> and was lead author of a "Digital Manifesto" on how to safeguard democratic values in the digital age.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-algorithmen-und-big-data-unsere-zukunft-bestimmen/1375933|title=IT-Revolution: Digitale Demokratie statt Datendiktatur|access-date=2018-05-18|language=de}}</ref> Prof. Helbing is an adviser to the Citizen Science Center Zurich <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://citizenscience.ch/about.html|title=Citizen Science Center Zurich - About|website=Citizen Science Center Zurich|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref> and is an advocate of a European Charter of Digital Human Rights.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2016-12-01/digitale-charta-fuer-europa-vorgestellt|title=Digitale Charta für Europa vorgestellt|website=www.netzwoche.ch|language=de|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref>
}}</ref> He was elected member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute<ref>{{cite web|title=Modeling suggests crowds are best navigated around the edges {{!}} Santa Fe Institute|date=10 November 2011 |url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/helbing-wired-crowd-movement-sociology|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> and now belongs to the External Faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.<ref>{{cite web|title=External Faculty|url=http://csh.ac.at/researchers/external_fellows.php|url-status=dead|access-date=2017-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522173904/http://csh.ac.at/researchers/external_fellows.php|archive-date=2017-05-22|last=Complexity Science Hub Vienna}}</ref> He sits in the Boards of the Global Brain Institute in Brussels<ref>{{cite web|title=Members|url=https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/|access-date=2017-05-10|last=The Global Brain Institute|language=de|archive-date=2019-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801123917/https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the International Centre for Earth Simulation in Geneva.<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: Dirk Helbing|url=http://www.icesfoundation.org/Pages/PersonProfile.aspx?id=20|access-date=2017-05-10|last=ICES Foundation|language=de}}</ref> He is also involved in the activities of "Staatslabor" (a Swiss government science initiative)<ref>{{cite web|title=Blockchain: Use-Cases im öffentlichen Sektor|publisher=staatslabor.ch|url=https://www.staatslabor.ch/en/node/35|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> as well as the establishment of the Blockchain [X]<ref>{{cite web|title=Blockchain[X] – Platform for Business, Government and Academia to profit from Blockchain|url=http://blockchainx.inn.ac/|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref> initiative and the Blockchain Lab in Delft.<ref>{{cite web|title=Blockchain Labs: Faculty Team|url=http://www.blockchain-lab.org/#team|access-date=2017-05-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mittelbayerische.de/wirtschaft-nachrichten/auf-dem-weg-zur-blockchain-gesellschaft-21840-art1608479.html|title=Auf dem Weg zur Blockchain-Gesellschaft|last=Burger|first=Stephanie|date=2018-01-29|website=Mittelbayerische|language=de|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref> He is a member of a Swiss governmental advisory group on the societal impact of digitization<ref>{{cite web|title=Bund ernennt Big-Data-Gruppe - gegen seinen Willen|date=27 August 2015 |url=http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2015-08-27/bund-ernennt-big-data-gruppe-gegen-seinen-willen|access-date=2017-05-03|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Digitalisierte Gesellschaft|url=https://www.leopoldina.org/de/politikberatung/wissenschaftliche-kommissionen/digitalisierte-gesellschaft/|access-date=2017-05-03|language=de}}</ref> and was lead author of a "Digital Manifesto" on how to safeguard democratic values in the digital age.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-algorithmen-und-big-data-unsere-zukunft-bestimmen/1375933|title=IT-Revolution: Digitale Demokratie statt Datendiktatur|access-date=2018-05-18|language=de}}</ref> Prof. Helbing is an adviser to the Citizen Science Center Zurich <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://citizenscience.ch/about.html|title=Citizen Science Center Zurich - About|website=Citizen Science Center Zurich|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref> and is an advocate of a European Charter of Digital Human Rights.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2016-12-01/digitale-charta-fuer-europa-vorgestellt|title=Digitale Charta für Europa vorgestellt|website=www.netzwoche.ch|date=December 2016 |language=de|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref>


Dirk Helbing is known for the [[Social Force Model|social force model]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-6114-2008|title = Dirk Helbing's Publons profile}}</ref> in particular its application to self-organising phenomena in pedestrian crowds.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/21541709|title=The wisdom of crowds|date=2011-12-17|work=The Economist|access-date=2017-05-12|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-fluid-dynamics-can-teach-us-about-navigating-crowds-180961823/|title=How Fluid Dynamics Can Help You Navigate Crowds|work=Smithsonian|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/09/hajj-stampede-fluid-dynamics-problem/|title=The Hajj Stampede Is a Fluid Dynamics Problem|last=Rogers|first=Adam|work=WIRED|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/making-mecca-safe-for-pilgrims-panic-specialists-bring-order-to-the-hajj-a-512858.html|title=Making Mecca Safe for Pilgrims: Panic Specialists Bring Order to the Hajj - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International|last=Germany|first=SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg|website=SPIEGEL ONLINE|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref name="paper1">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Molnár | first2 = Péter | title = Social force model for pedestrian dynamics | journal = Physical Review E | volume = 51 | issue = 5 | pages = 4282&ndash;4286 | year = 1995 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282 | pmid = 9963139 |arxiv = cond-mat/9805244 |bibcode = 1995PhRvE..51.4282H | s2cid = 29333691 }}</ref><ref name="paper2">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Molnár | first2 = Péter | last3 = Farkas| first3 = Illés J | last4 = Bolay | first4 = Kai | title = Self-organizing pedestrian movement | journal = Environment and Planning B | volume = 28 | issue = 3 | pages = 361&ndash;383 | year = 2001| doi = 10.1068/b2697 | s2cid = 16276539 }}</ref><ref name="paper3">
Dirk Helbing is known for the [[Social Force Model|social force model]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-6114-2008|title = Dirk Helbing's Publons profile}}</ref> in particular its application to self-organising phenomena in pedestrian crowds.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/21541709|title=The wisdom of crowds|date=2011-12-17|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=2017-05-12|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-fluid-dynamics-can-teach-us-about-navigating-crowds-180961823/|title=How Fluid Dynamics Can Help You Navigate Crowds|work=Smithsonian|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/09/hajj-stampede-fluid-dynamics-problem/|title=The Hajj Stampede Is a Fluid Dynamics Problem|last=Rogers|first=Adam|magazine=WIRED|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/making-mecca-safe-for-pilgrims-panic-specialists-bring-order-to-the-hajj-a-512858.html|title=Making Mecca Safe for Pilgrims: Panic Specialists Bring Order to the Hajj - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International|last=Germany|first=SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=25 October 2007 |access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref name="paper1">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Molnár | first2 = Péter | title = Social force model for pedestrian dynamics | journal = Physical Review E | volume = 51 | issue = 5 | pages = 4282&ndash;4286 | year = 1995 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282 | pmid = 9963139 |arxiv = cond-mat/9805244 |bibcode = 1995PhRvE..51.4282H | s2cid = 29333691 }}</ref><ref name="paper2">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Molnár | first2 = Péter | last3 = Farkas| first3 = Illés J | last4 = Bolay | first4 = Kai | title = Self-organizing pedestrian movement | journal = Environment and Planning B | volume = 28 | issue = 3 | pages = 361&ndash;383 | year = 2001| doi = 10.1068/b2697 | s2cid = 16276539 }}</ref><ref name="paper3">
{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Farkas | first2 = Illés | last3 = Vicsek | first3 = Tamás |author-link3=Tamás Vicsek| title = Simulating dynamical features of escape panic | journal = Nature | volume = 407 | pages = 487&ndash;490 | year = 2000 | doi = 10.1038/35035023 | pmid = 11028994 | issue = 6803 |arxiv = cond-mat/0009448 |bibcode = 2000Natur.407..487H | s2cid = 310346 }}</ref><ref name="paper4">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Buzna | first2 = Lubos | last3 = Johansson | first3 = Anders | last4 = Werner | first4 = Torsten | title = Self-organized pedestrian crowd dynamics: Experiments, simulations, and design solutions | journal = Transportation Science | volume = 39 | issue = 1 | pages = 1&ndash;24 | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1287/trsc.1040.0108 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Besides the slower-is-faster effect,<ref name="paper3" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.mit.edu/2016/no-traffic-lights-communicating-vehicles-intersections-more-efficiently-0317|title=When slower is faster|last=Dizikes|first=Peter|date=March 17, 2016|work=MIT News|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> he introduced the freezing-by-heating effect <ref name="paper5">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Farkas | first2 = Illés J | last3 = Vicsek | first3 = Tamás |author-link3=Tamás Vicsek| last4 = Werner | first4 = Torsten | title = Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 84 | issue = 6 | pages = 1240&ndash;1243 | year = 2000 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1240 | bibcode=2000PhRvL..84.1240H|arxiv = cond-mat/9904326 | pmid=11017488| s2cid = 18649078 }}</ref> and the phase diagram of congested [[traffic]] states.<ref name="paper6">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Treiber | first2 = Martin | title = Gas-kinetic-based traffic model explaining observed hysteretic phase transition | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 81 | issue = 14 | pages = 3042&ndash;3045 | year = 1998 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3042 | bibcode=1998PhRvL..81.3042H|arxiv = cond-mat/9810277 | s2cid = 119045169 }}</ref><ref name="paper7">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Treiber | first2 = Martin | title = Derivation of a fundamental diagram for urban traffic flow | journal = European Physical Journal B | volume = 70 | issue = 2 | pages = 229&ndash;241 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1140/epjb/e2009-00093-7 |bibcode = 2009EPJB...70..229H |arxiv = 0807.1843 | s2cid = 18557947 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/12/the-physics-of-gridlock/378457/|title=The Physics of Gridlock|last=Budiansky|first=Stephen|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> Helbing also proposed a microscopic foundation of evolutionary [[game theory]]<ref name="paper8">[http://www.soms.ethz.ch/research/pairinteractions.pdf A mathematical model for behavioral changes by pair interactions], D. Helbing (1992) Pages 330-348 in: G. Haag, U. Mueller, and K. G. Troitzsch (eds.) Economic Evolution and Demographic Change. Formal Models in Social Sciences (Springer, Berlin).</ref> and has studied self-organized behavioral conventions.<ref name="paper9">{{cite journal | title = A mathematical model for the behavior of individuals in a social field | author = D. Helbing |year=1994 | url = http://www.soms.ethz.ch/research/gametheory/20090428173204537.pdf | journal = Journal of Mathematical Sociology | volume = 19 | issue = 3| pages = 189–219 | doi=10.1080/0022250x.1994.9990143| arxiv = cond-mat/9805194 | s2cid = 18777712 }}</ref> His work has applied the principles of [[collective intelligence]] and self-organized control to the optimization of urban <ref name="paper10">{{cite journal | last2 = Helbing | first2 = Dirk | last1 = Lämmler | first1 = Stefan | title = Self-control of traffic lights and vehicle flows in urban road networks | journal = Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment| pages = P04019 | year = 2008 | issue = 4 | doi = 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/04/P04019 | volume = 2008 |bibcode = 2008JSMTE..04..019L |arxiv = 0802.0403 | s2cid = 2787848 }}</ref> and freeway traffic.<ref name="paper11">{{cite journal | last4 = Helbing | first4 = Dirk | last1 = Kesting | first1 = Arne | last2 = Treiber | first2 = Martin | last3 = Schönhof | first3 = Martin | title = Adaptive cruise control design for active congestion avoidance | journal = Transportation Research C | volume = 16 | issue = 6 | pages = 668&ndash;683 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1016/j.trc.2007.12.004 }}</ref> He has conducted research into norms and conflict, and the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals,<ref name="paper12">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Yu | first2 = Wenjian | title = The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 106 | pages = 3680&ndash;3685| year = 2009 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0811503106 | pmid = 19237576 | issue = 10 | pmc = 2646628 |bibcode = 2009PNAS..106.3680H |arxiv = 0903.4054 | doi-access = free }}</ref> socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2014-01-01|title=Quality collectives : evolving socio-technical systems to support quality|url=http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:149654?lang=en|journal=QLectives Working Paper|page=1|last1=Gilbert|first1=Nigel|last2=Xenitidou|first2=Maria|last3=Helbing|first3=Dirk|last4=Jelasity|first4=M.|last5=Medo|first5=M.|last6=Pouwelse|first6=J.|last7=Roth|first7=C.|last8=Ziembowicz|first8=M.|last9=Zistler|first9=A.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence/|title=Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?|last=Zwitter|first=Dirk Helbing, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ernst Hafen, Michael Hagner, Yvonne Hofstetter, Jeroen van den Hoven, Roberto V. Zicari, Andrej|work=Scientific American|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> the spread of disaster <ref name="paper15">{{cite journal | last5 = Helbing | first5 = Dirk | last1 = Simonsen | first1 = Ingve | last2 = Buzna | first2 = Lubos | last3 = Peters | first3 = Karsten | last4 = Bornholdt | first4 = Stefan | title = Transient dynamics increasing network vulnerability to cascading failures | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 100 | issue = 21 | pages = 1&ndash;4 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.218701 | bibcode=2008PhRvL.100u8701S | pmid=18518644|arxiv = 0704.1952 | s2cid = 18218779 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/10/15/234683136/word-of-the-day-hyper-risk|title=Word Of The Day: Hyper-Risk|last=Frank|first=Adam|work=NPR.org|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> and crisis management.<ref name="paper16">{{cite journal | last5 = Helbing | first5 = Dirk | last2 = Peters | first2 = Karsten | last1 = Buzna | first1 = Lubos | last3 = Ammoser | first3 = Hendrik | last4 = Kühnert | first4 = Christian | title = Efficient response to cascading disaster spreading | journal = Physical Review E | volume = 75 | issue = 5 | pages = 056107 | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056107 | pmid = 17677133 |arxiv = physics/0611244 |bibcode = 2007PhRvE..75e6107B | s2cid = 6221342 }}</ref>
{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Farkas | first2 = Illés | last3 = Vicsek | first3 = Tamás |author-link3=Tamás Vicsek| title = Simulating dynamical features of escape panic | journal = Nature | volume = 407 | pages = 487&ndash;490 | year = 2000 | doi = 10.1038/35035023 | pmid = 11028994 | issue = 6803 |arxiv = cond-mat/0009448 |bibcode = 2000Natur.407..487H | s2cid = 310346 }}</ref><ref name="paper4">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Buzna | first2 = Lubos | last3 = Johansson | first3 = Anders | last4 = Werner | first4 = Torsten | title = Self-organized pedestrian crowd dynamics: Experiments, simulations, and design solutions | journal = Transportation Science | volume = 39 | issue = 1 | pages = 1&ndash;24 | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1287/trsc.1040.0108 | doi-access = }}</ref> Besides the slower-is-faster effect,<ref name="paper3" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.mit.edu/2016/no-traffic-lights-communicating-vehicles-intersections-more-efficiently-0317|title=When slower is faster|last=Dizikes|first=Peter|date=March 17, 2016|work=MIT News|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> he introduced the freezing-by-heating effect <ref name="paper5">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Farkas | first2 = Illés J | last3 = Vicsek | first3 = Tamás |author-link3=Tamás Vicsek| last4 = Werner | first4 = Torsten | title = Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 84 | issue = 6 | pages = 1240&ndash;1243 | year = 2000 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1240 | bibcode=2000PhRvL..84.1240H|arxiv = cond-mat/9904326 | pmid=11017488| s2cid = 18649078 }}</ref> and the phase diagram of congested [[traffic]] states.<ref name="paper6">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Treiber | first2 = Martin | title = Gas-kinetic-based traffic model explaining observed hysteretic phase transition | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 81 | issue = 14 | pages = 3042&ndash;3045 | year = 1998 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3042 | bibcode=1998PhRvL..81.3042H|arxiv = cond-mat/9810277 | s2cid = 119045169 }}</ref><ref name="paper7">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Treiber | first2 = Martin | title = Derivation of a fundamental diagram for urban traffic flow | journal = European Physical Journal B | volume = 70 | issue = 2 | pages = 229&ndash;241 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1140/epjb/e2009-00093-7 |bibcode = 2009EPJB...70..229H |arxiv = 0807.1843 | s2cid = 18557947 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/12/the-physics-of-gridlock/378457/|title=The Physics of Gridlock|last=Budiansky|first=Stephen|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> Helbing also proposed a microscopic foundation of evolutionary [[game theory]]<ref name="paper8">[http://www.soms.ethz.ch/research/pairinteractions.pdf A mathematical model for behavioral changes by pair interactions], D. Helbing (1992) Pages 330–348 in: G. Haag, U. Mueller, and K. G. Troitzsch (eds.) Economic Evolution and Demographic Change. Formal Models in Social Sciences (Springer, Berlin).</ref> and has studied self-organized behavioral conventions.<ref name="paper9">{{cite journal | title = A mathematical model for the behavior of individuals in a social field | author = D. Helbing |year=1994 | url = http://www.soms.ethz.ch/research/gametheory/20090428173204537.pdf | journal = Journal of Mathematical Sociology | volume = 19 | issue = 3| pages = 189–219 | doi=10.1080/0022250x.1994.9990143| arxiv = cond-mat/9805194 | s2cid = 18777712 }}</ref> His work has applied the principles of [[collective intelligence]] and self-organized control to the optimization of urban <ref name="paper10">{{cite journal | last2 = Helbing | first2 = Dirk | last1 = Lämmler | first1 = Stefan | title = Self-control of traffic lights and vehicle flows in urban road networks | journal = Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment| pages = P04019 | year = 2008 | issue = 4 | doi = 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/04/P04019 | volume = 2008 |bibcode = 2008JSMTE..04..019L |arxiv = 0802.0403 | s2cid = 2787848 }}</ref> and freeway traffic.<ref name="paper11">{{cite journal | last4 = Helbing | first4 = Dirk | last1 = Kesting | first1 = Arne | last2 = Treiber | first2 = Martin | last3 = Schönhof | first3 = Martin | title = Adaptive cruise control design for active congestion avoidance | journal = Transportation Research C | volume = 16 | issue = 6 | pages = 668&ndash;683 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1016/j.trc.2007.12.004 }}</ref> He has conducted research into norms and conflict, and the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals,<ref name="paper12">{{cite journal | last1 = Helbing | first1 = Dirk | last2 = Yu | first2 = Wenjian | title = The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 106 | pages = 3680&ndash;3685| year = 2009 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0811503106 | pmid = 19237576 | issue = 10 | pmc = 2646628 |bibcode = 2009PNAS..106.3680H |arxiv = 0903.4054 | doi-access = free }}</ref> socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2014-01-01|title=Quality collectives : evolving socio-technical systems to support quality|url=http://e-citations.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/pub:149654?lang=en|journal=QLectives Working Paper|page=1|last1=Gilbert|first1=Nigel|last2=Xenitidou|first2=Maria|last3=Helbing|first3=Dirk|last4=Jelasity|first4=M.|last5=Medo|first5=M.|last6=Pouwelse|first6=J.|last7=Roth|first7=C.|last8=Ziembowicz|first8=M.|last9=Zistler|first9=A.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence/|title=Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?|last=Zwitter|first=Dirk Helbing, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ernst Hafen, Michael Hagner, Yvonne Hofstetter, Jeroen van den Hoven, Roberto V. Zicari, Andrej|work=Scientific American|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> the spread of disaster <ref name="paper15">{{cite journal | last5 = Helbing | first5 = Dirk | last1 = Simonsen | first1 = Ingve | last2 = Buzna | first2 = Lubos | last3 = Peters | first3 = Karsten | last4 = Bornholdt | first4 = Stefan | title = Transient dynamics increasing network vulnerability to cascading failures | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 100 | issue = 21 | pages = 1&ndash;4 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.218701 | bibcode=2008PhRvL.100u8701S | pmid=18518644|arxiv = 0704.1952 | s2cid = 18218779 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/10/15/234683136/word-of-the-day-hyper-risk|title=Word Of The Day: Hyper-Risk|last=Frank|first=Adam|work=NPR.org|access-date=2017-05-12}}</ref> and crisis management.<ref name="paper16">{{cite journal | last5 = Helbing | first5 = Dirk | last2 = Peters | first2 = Karsten | last1 = Buzna | first1 = Lubos | last3 = Ammoser | first3 = Hendrik | last4 = Kühnert | first4 = Christian | title = Efficient response to cascading disaster spreading | journal = Physical Review E | volume = 75 | issue = 5 | pages = 056107 | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056107 | pmid = 17677133 |arxiv = physics/0611244 |bibcode = 2007PhRvE..75e6107B | s2cid = 6221342 }}</ref>


===Living Earth Simulator===
===Living Earth Simulator===


Helbing was the Principal Investigator on a project named ''FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis Relief System'', a computing system working on [[big data]]sets, conceived as sort of a ''[[crystal ball]]'' of the world.<ref name="D. Weinberger" /> The core of the system is the ''Living Earth Simulator'', a computing machine attempting "to model global-scale systems — economies, governments, cultural trends, epidemics, agriculture, technological developments, and more — using torrential data streams, sophisticated algorithms, and as much hardware as it takes".<ref name="D. Weinberger" /> However, the project lost in the final round of the application for funding from the [[European Commission]] of €1 billion.<ref name="D. Weinberger">[[David Weinberger]], ''The Machine That Would Predict the Future'',''[[Scientific American]]'', Dec 2011, Vol. 305, Issue no. 6</ref> Despite this, the ideas developed by the group have influenced international research programs[[DARPA|.]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/BreakoutSessionFrontiersSocialScience.pdf|title=Breakout Session 5: Frontiers in Social Science|last=DARPA|date=23 June 2016|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref> Since 2017, the FuturICT 2.0 project is being funded by the European Commission's FLAG-ERA program.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flagera.eu/flag-era-jtc-2016-project-kick-off-seminar/|title=FLAG-ERA JTC 2016 Project Kick-off Seminar|date=28 April 2017|website=FLAG-ERA|access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref>
Helbing was the Principal Investigator on a project named ''FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis Relief System'', a computing system working on [[big data]]sets, conceived as sort of a ''[[crystal ball]]'' of the world.<ref name="D. Weinberger" /> The core of the system is the ''Living Earth Simulator'', a computing machine attempting "to model global-scale systems — economies, governments, cultural trends, epidemics, agriculture, technological developments, and more — using torrential data streams, sophisticated algorithms, and as much hardware as it takes".<ref name="D. Weinberger" /> However, the project lost in the final round of the application for funding from the [[European Commission]] of €1 billion.<ref name="D. Weinberger">[[David Weinberger]], ''The Machine That Would Predict the Future'',''[[Scientific American]]'', Dec 2011, Vol. 305, Issue no. 6</ref> Despite this, the ideas developed by the group have influenced international research programs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.darpa.mil/attachments/BreakoutSessionFrontiersSocialScience.pdf|title=Breakout Session 5: Frontiers in Social Science|last=DARPA|date=23 June 2016|website=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref> Since 2017, the FuturICT 2.0 project is being funded by the European Commission's FLAG-ERA program.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flagera.eu/flag-era-jtc-2016-project-kick-off-seminar/|title=FLAG-ERA JTC 2016 Project Kick-off Seminar|date=28 April 2017|website=FLAG-ERA|access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref>


=== Noteworthy Projects and Presentations by Dirk Helbing's Research Teams in Dresden, Zurich and Delft ===
=== Noteworthy projects and presentations by Dirk Helbing's research teams in Dresden, Zurich and Delft ===


* Derivation of the replicator equation in evolutionary game theory<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Helbing|first=Dirk|date=1996-03-01|title=A stochastic behavioral model and a 'Microscopic' foundation of evolutionary game theory|journal=Theory and Decision|volume=40|issue=2|pages=149–179|doi=10.1007/BF00133171|issn=0040-5833|arxiv=cond-mat/9805340|s2cid=14185669}}</ref> and of the self-organization of behavioral conventions from behavioral imitation.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783540561729|title=Economic Evolution and Demographic Change|last=Haag G, Mueller U, and Troitzsch K G.|publisher=Springer|year=1992|isbn=978-3-642-48808-5|location=Berlin}}</ref>
* Derivation of the replicator equation in evolutionary game theory<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Helbing|first=Dirk|date=1996-03-01|title=A stochastic behavioral model and a 'Microscopic' foundation of evolutionary game theory|journal=Theory and Decision|volume=40|issue=2|pages=149–179|doi=10.1007/BF00133171|issn=0040-5833|arxiv=cond-mat/9805340|s2cid=14185669}}</ref> and of the self-organization of behavioral conventions from behavioral imitation.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783540561729|title=Economic Evolution and Demographic Change|last=Haag G, Mueller U, and Troitzsch K G.|publisher=Springer|year=1992|isbn=978-3-642-48808-5|location=Berlin}}</ref>
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* Development of the "social force model", frequently used for pedestrian and crowd simulation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Molnár|first2=Péter|date=1995-05-01|title=Social force model for pedestrian dynamics|journal=Physical Review E|volume=51|issue=5|pages=4282–4286|doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282|pmid=9963139|bibcode=1995PhRvE..51.4282H|arxiv=cond-mat/9805244|s2cid=29333691}}</ref>
* Development of the "social force model", frequently used for pedestrian and crowd simulation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Molnár|first2=Péter|date=1995-05-01|title=Social force model for pedestrian dynamics|journal=Physical Review E|volume=51|issue=5|pages=4282–4286|doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282|pmid=9963139|bibcode=1995PhRvE..51.4282H|arxiv=cond-mat/9805244|s2cid=29333691}}</ref>
* Establishment of an expert team to improve the safety of pilgrimages.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Johansson|first2=Anders|last3=Al-Abideen|first3=Habib Zein|date=2007-04-18|title=Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study|journal=Physical Review E|volume=75|issue=4|pages=046109|doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046109|bibcode=2007PhRvE..75d6109H|arxiv=physics/0701203|pmid=17500963|s2cid=21398961}}</ref>
* Establishment of an expert team to improve the safety of pilgrimages.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Johansson|first2=Anders|last3=Al-Abideen|first3=Habib Zein|date=2007-04-18|title=Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study|journal=Physical Review E|volume=75|issue=4|pages=046109|doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046109|bibcode=2007PhRvE..75d6109H|arxiv=physics/0701203|pmid=17500963|s2cid=21398961}}</ref>
* Data-based agent-based simulation study on the Middle Eastern conflict in Jerusalem.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bhavnani|first1=Ravi|last2=Donnay|first2=Karsten|last3=Miodownik|first3=Dan|last4=Mor|first4=Maayan|last5=Helbing|first5=Dirk|date=2014-01-01|title=Group Segregation and Urban Violence|journal=American Journal of Political Science|volume=58|issue=1|pages=226–245|doi=10.1111/ajps.12045|issn=1540-5907|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* Data-based agent-based simulation study on the Middle Eastern conflict in Jerusalem.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bhavnani|first1=Ravi|last2=Donnay|first2=Karsten|last3=Miodownik|first3=Dan|last4=Mor|first4=Maayan|last5=Helbing|first5=Dirk|date=2014-01-01|title=Group Segregation and Urban Violence|journal=American Journal of Political Science|volume=58|issue=1|pages=226–245|doi=10.1111/ajps.12045|issn=1540-5907|doi-access=}}</ref>
* Publication "How to save human lives: What complexity science and information systems can contribute".<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Brockmann|first2=Dirk|last3=Chadefaux|first3=Thomas|last4=Donnay|first4=Karsten|last5=Blanke|first5=Ulf|last6=Woolley-Meza|first6=Olivia|last7=Moussaid|first7=Mehdi|last8=Johansson|first8=Anders|last9=Krause|first9=Jens|date=2015-02-01|title=Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute|journal=Journal of Statistical Physics|volume=158|issue=3|pages=735–781|doi=10.1007/s10955-014-1024-9|issn=0022-4715|pmc=4457089|pmid=26074625|bibcode=2015JSP...158..735H|arxiv=1402.7011}}</ref>
* Publication "How to save human lives: What complexity science and information systems can contribute".<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Brockmann|first2=Dirk|last3=Chadefaux|first3=Thomas|last4=Donnay|first4=Karsten|last5=Blanke|first5=Ulf|last6=Woolley-Meza|first6=Olivia|last7=Moussaid|first7=Mehdi|last8=Johansson|first8=Anders|last9=Krause|first9=Jens|date=2015-02-01|title=Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute|journal=Journal of Statistical Physics|volume=158|issue=3|pages=735–781|doi=10.1007/s10955-014-1024-9|issn=0022-4715|pmc=4457089|pmid=26074625|bibcode=2015JSP...158..735H|arxiv=1402.7011}}</ref>
* Patent: "Interaction Support Processor" - Ethically aligned design for information systems.<ref>{{cite patent|title=Interaction Support Processor|pubdate=2015-08-14|inventor-last=Helbing|inventor-first=Dirk|country=WO|number=2015118455}}</ref>
* Patent: "Interaction Support Processor" - Ethically aligned design for information systems.<ref>{{cite patent|title=Interaction Support Processor|pubdate=2015-08-14|inventor-last=Helbing|inventor-first=Dirk|country=WO|number=2015118455}}</ref>
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* BIOTS - Blockchain and Internet of Things School at ETH Zurich, founded in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coss.ethz.ch/education/BIOTS.html|title=BIOTS - Blockchain And the Internet of Things|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref>
* BIOTS - Blockchain and Internet of Things School at ETH Zurich, founded in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coss.ethz.ch/education/BIOTS.html|title=BIOTS - Blockchain And the Internet of Things|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref>
* Co-founded Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology in (2016).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ethicsandtechnology.org/about/|title=About Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref>
* Co-founded Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology in (2016).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ethicsandtechnology.org/about/|title=About Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref>
* Article in Nature, "Sustainable development: Turn war rooms into peace rooms", Dirk Helbing and Peter Seele, September 28, 2017.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Seele|first2=Peter|date=2017-09-27|title=Sustainable development: Turn war rooms into peace rooms|journal=Nature|volume=549|issue=7673|pages=458|doi=10.1038/549458c|pmid=28959973|issn=0028-0836|bibcode=2017Natur.549..458H}}</ref>
* Article in Nature, "Sustainable development: Turn war rooms into peace rooms", Dirk Helbing and Peter Seele, September 28, 2017.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Helbing|first1=Dirk|last2=Seele|first2=Peter|date=2017-09-27|title=Sustainable development: Turn war rooms into peace rooms|journal=Nature|volume=549|issue=7673|pages=458|doi=10.1038/549458c|pmid=28959973|issn=0028-0836|bibcode=2017Natur.549..458H|s2cid=52866297 }}</ref>
* Interview at "Petersberger Gespräche" 2017 (Bonn, German) on September 16, 2017: "Artificial Intelligence - from feasibility and superintelligence to planning and envisioning the future".<ref>Peterberger Gespräche (2017-09-16), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcgVEAPJA0 ''Interview with Professor Dirk Helbing''], retrieved 2018-03-02</ref>
* Interview at "Petersberger Gespräche" 2017 (Bonn, German) on September 16, 2017: "Artificial Intelligence - from feasibility and superintelligence to planning and envisioning the future".<ref>Peterberger Gespräche (2017-09-16), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcgVEAPJA0 ''Interview with Professor Dirk Helbing''], retrieved 2018-03-02</ref>

== Controversies ==

=== Allegations of inappropriate presentation content ===
In February 2022, during a lecture Professor Dirk Helbing presented a slide that some students from [[ETH Zurich]] considered inappropriate and insensitive to the Chinese community.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Enz |first1=Ursina |title=Vorlesungsfolie sorgt für Rassismusvorwürfe an der ETH |url=https://www.zsonline.ch/2022/03/24/vorlesungsfolie-sorgt-fuer-rassismusvorwuerfe-an-der-eth |access-date=3 March 2023 |agency=Zürcher Studierendenzeitung |publisher=Zürcher Studierendenzeitung |date=24 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Roth |first1=Jonas |title=Cancel-Culture an der ETH: Ein Professor erhält Morddrohungen wegen einer Vorlesungsfolie |url=https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/shitstorm-an-der-eth-ein-professor-erhaelt-morddrohungen-ld.1673554?reduced=true&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp |access-date=3 March 2023 |agency=Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG |publisher=Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG |date=12 March 2022}}</ref> The students raise their concerns both to Professor Helbing and the [[ETH Zurich]] Ombudsman and Respect Advice Center, the latter of which provides services related to inappropriate behaviours, discrimination, bullying or allegations at the Institute. A group of Chinese students also wrote open letters to ETH Zurich to address this issue.
[[File:Slide that led to controversies..jpg|thumb|Slide that circulated internet and led to controversies.]]
=== Social-media comments and death threats ===
This allegations by the students were mentioned on LinkedIn and received a lot of comments from students and researchers worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Dirk Helbing issues apology after receiving death threats over lecture taken out of context |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/ethz/comments/t3k67l/professor_dirk_helbing_issues_apology_after/ |website=www.reddit.com |date=28 February 2022 |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> In addition, it was mentioned that Professor Dirk Helbing received death threats.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Enz |first1=Ursina |title=Vorlesungsfolie sorgt für Rassismusvorwürfe an der ETH |url=https://www.zsonline.ch/2022/03/24/vorlesungsfolie-sorgt-fuer-rassismusvorwuerfe-an-der-eth |access-date=3 March 2023 |agency=Zürcher Studierendenzeitung |publisher=Zürcher Studierendenzeitung |date=24 March 2022}}</ref>

=== Investigation and closure ===
Following an investigation and discussion with the ETH Zurich Ombudsman and Respect Advice center, Professor Dirk Helbing presented an apology statement on Twitter<ref>{{cite web |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |title=My apologies! I am really very sorry for what happened. |url=https://twitter.com/DirkHelbing/status/1498335892909576193 |website=www.twitter.com |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> and LinkedIn Accounts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Helbing |first1=Dirk |title=I would like to apologise! |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dirk-helbing-58b291b1_i-would-like-to-apologise-activity-6904102371249459202-eAaS?trk=public_profile_like_view |website=www.linkedin.com |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> The ETH Zurich Twitter account also mentioned the apology<ref>{{cite web |last1=ETH |first1=Zurich |title=Prof. Helbing apologizes for offending people; this was never his intention. |url=https://twitter.com/ETH_en/status/1498342566001008648 |access-date=3 March 2023}}</ref> from Professor Dirk Helbing. Despite the persistent controversies and ongoing expressions of disappointment from the society, ETH Zurich proceeded to close the issue.


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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Dirk Helbing
Born (1965-01-19) January 19, 1965 (age 59)
Aalen, Germany[13]
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen (1986)[13]
Known forSocial force model, crowd simulation, traffic simulation, pedestrian microsimulation, complex systems, computational social science
AwardsGolden Idea Award 2012[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComplex Systems, Computational Social Science
InstitutionsETH Zurich (2007–)[2]
TU Delft (2015)[3]
University of Oxford (2010)[4]
(host: Peter Hedström)
Harvard University (2010)[5]
(hosts: Martin Nowak, Nicholas A. Christakis)
INRETS (2004)
(host: Patrick Lebacque)[6]
TU Dresden (2000)[7]
Collegium Budapest, Hungary (2000)[8]
Tel Aviv University (1999)
(hosts: Isaac Goldhirsch, Eshel Ben-Jacob)[9]
Eötvös Loránd University (1998)
(host: Tamás Vicsek)
Xerox PARC (1998)
(host: Bernardo Huberman)[10]
Weizmann Institute of Science (1997)
(host: David Mukamel)[11]
University of Stuttgart (1996)[12]
Doctoral advisorWolfgang Weidlich
Other academic advisorsManfred R. Schroeder

Dirk Helbing (born January 19, 1965) is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and affiliate of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich.

Biography

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Dirk Helbing studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. He completed his doctoral thesis at Stuttgart University, on modeling social processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, stochastic methods, and complex systems theory.[14] In 1996, he completed further studies on traffic dynamics and optimization.

In 2000, he became a full professor and Managing Director of the Institute for Transport and Economics at Dresden University of Technology.[15] Helbing was elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2008[16] and of the World Academy of Art and Science in 2016.[17] In January 2014 Prof. Helbing received an honorary PhD from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).[18][19] Since June 2015 he is affiliate professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft, where he leads the PhD school in "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future".[20]

Research activities

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Dirk Helbing started out as a physicist. His diploma thesis focussed on pedestrian, crowd, and evacuation modeling and simulation.[21] During his PhD and habilitation in physics,[22] he helped to establish the fields of socio-, econo- and traffic physics.[23][24] He was also co-founder of the Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division of the German Physical Society (DPG).[25] As a visiting scientist at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel, the Eötvös University in Budapest, and Xerox PARC in California, he focused on a broad variety of complex systems - including the self-organisation of pedestrians,[26] traffic jams,[27] bacterial patterns,[28] and Mexican waves.[29] At Dresden University of Technology he became the Managing Director of the Institute of Transport & Economics,[30] worked on traffic assistant systems (i.e. early self-driving cars)[31][32] and a self-organized traffic light control system,[33][34][35] which was patented.[36] He found that crowd disasters are caused by a phenomenon called "crowd turbulence" and worked on ways to describe, reduce and respond to such disasters.[37] As professor of Sociology at ETH Zurich, he worked on evolutionary game theory[38][39] and agent-based computer simulations of social processes and phenomena.[40]

The work of Prof. Helbing has been widely cited in the media and academia and he has written more than 10 papers in Nature,[41] Science[42] and PNAS.[43] In 2012, he won the Idee Suisse Award.[44] He co-founded the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems,[45] the Risk Center,[46] the Institute for Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP)[47] and the Decision Science Laboratory (DeSciL).[48] While coordinating the FuturICT initiative,[49][50] he helped to further develop disciplines such as data science, computational social science, and global systems science in Europe.[51] This work resulted in the establishment of the Nervousnet Platform, a smartphone app enabling users to share data to be used to achieve scientific and social goals and lay the groundwork for digital democracy.[52][53] Helbing worked for the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems.[54] He was elected member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute[55] and now belongs to the External Faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.[56] He sits in the Boards of the Global Brain Institute in Brussels[57] and the International Centre for Earth Simulation in Geneva.[58] He is also involved in the activities of "Staatslabor" (a Swiss government science initiative)[59] as well as the establishment of the Blockchain [X][60] initiative and the Blockchain Lab in Delft.[61][62] He is a member of a Swiss governmental advisory group on the societal impact of digitization[63][64] and was lead author of a "Digital Manifesto" on how to safeguard democratic values in the digital age.[65] Prof. Helbing is an adviser to the Citizen Science Center Zurich [66] and is an advocate of a European Charter of Digital Human Rights.[67]

Dirk Helbing is known for the social force model,[68] in particular its application to self-organising phenomena in pedestrian crowds.[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] Besides the slower-is-faster effect,[75][77] he introduced the freezing-by-heating effect [78] and the phase diagram of congested traffic states.[79][80][81] Helbing also proposed a microscopic foundation of evolutionary game theory[82] and has studied self-organized behavioral conventions.[83] His work has applied the principles of collective intelligence and self-organized control to the optimization of urban [84] and freeway traffic.[85] He has conducted research into norms and conflict, and the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals,[86] socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems,[87][88] the spread of disaster [89][90] and crisis management.[91]

Living Earth Simulator

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Helbing was the Principal Investigator on a project named FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis Relief System, a computing system working on big datasets, conceived as sort of a crystal ball of the world.[92] The core of the system is the Living Earth Simulator, a computing machine attempting "to model global-scale systems — economies, governments, cultural trends, epidemics, agriculture, technological developments, and more — using torrential data streams, sophisticated algorithms, and as much hardware as it takes".[92] However, the project lost in the final round of the application for funding from the European Commission of €1 billion.[92] Despite this, the ideas developed by the group have influenced international research programs.[93] Since 2017, the FuturICT 2.0 project is being funded by the European Commission's FLAG-ERA program.[94]

Noteworthy projects and presentations by Dirk Helbing's research teams in Dresden, Zurich and Delft

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  • Derivation of the replicator equation in evolutionary game theory[95] and of the self-organization of behavioral conventions from behavioral imitation.[96]
  • Creation of an electronic traffic assistance system to reduce traffic jams on freeways (an early algorithm for self-driving cars).[97]
  • Invention of a patented[98] self-organized traffic light control system for cities.[99]
  • Semiconductor logistic project with Infineon Technologies increasing throughput by 30%.[100]
  • Development of the "social force model", frequently used for pedestrian and crowd simulation.[101]
  • Establishment of an expert team to improve the safety of pilgrimages.[102]
  • Data-based agent-based simulation study on the Middle Eastern conflict in Jerusalem.[103]
  • Publication "How to save human lives: What complexity science and information systems can contribute".[104]
  • Patent: "Interaction Support Processor" - Ethically aligned design for information systems.[105]
  • Nervousnet App - the Internet of Things as a Citizen Web (in development).[106]
  • Grippenet App for anonymous cooperative health monitoring (in development).[107]
  • Speech at the Out of the Box Conference with World Thinkers and the Dalai Lama on May 16, 2012.[108]
  • Declaration of "Digital Democracy" at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin on November 9, 2015.[109]
  • Talk at the "Build Peace" Conference in Zurich on September 11, 2016: "A New Paradigm for World Peace Is Possible".[110]
  • BIOTS - Blockchain and Internet of Things School at ETH Zurich, founded in 2016.[111]
  • Co-founded Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology in (2016).[112]
  • Article in Nature, "Sustainable development: Turn war rooms into peace rooms", Dirk Helbing and Peter Seele, September 28, 2017.[113]
  • Interview at "Petersberger Gespräche" 2017 (Bonn, German) on September 16, 2017: "Artificial Intelligence - from feasibility and superintelligence to planning and envisioning the future".[114]

Controversies

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Allegations of inappropriate presentation content

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In February 2022, during a lecture Professor Dirk Helbing presented a slide that some students from ETH Zurich considered inappropriate and insensitive to the Chinese community.[115][116] The students raise their concerns both to Professor Helbing and the ETH Zurich Ombudsman and Respect Advice Center, the latter of which provides services related to inappropriate behaviours, discrimination, bullying or allegations at the Institute. A group of Chinese students also wrote open letters to ETH Zurich to address this issue.

Slide that circulated internet and led to controversies.

Social-media comments and death threats

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This allegations by the students were mentioned on LinkedIn and received a lot of comments from students and researchers worldwide.[117] In addition, it was mentioned that Professor Dirk Helbing received death threats.[118]

Investigation and closure

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Following an investigation and discussion with the ETH Zurich Ombudsman and Respect Advice center, Professor Dirk Helbing presented an apology statement on Twitter[119] and LinkedIn Accounts.[120] The ETH Zurich Twitter account also mentioned the apology[121] from Professor Dirk Helbing. Despite the persistent controversies and ongoing expressions of disappointment from the society, ETH Zurich proceeded to close the issue.

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