The Complexity Science Hub (CSH) is an independent research platform that combines data-driven methods with theoretical modeling to investigate key societal challenges from a systems perspective.
The Austria Mobility Program enables data science talents to spend up to three months conducting research at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna.
CSH conducts independent research on real-world socioeconomic systems, including supply chains, social polarization and opinion dynamics, healthcare systems, digital market behavior, urban development, and labor market transformations.
The complex systems lens views the world as interconnected, dynamic, co-evolving networks, revealing how vulnerabilities emerge and identifying opportunities for intervention. CSH advances this understanding by extracting meaning from massive datasets representing our planet's complex dimensions, combining data-driven discovery with rigorous theory and explanatory models.
What Makes CSH Exciting
- Data Science and AI at Scale
CSH integrates predictive AI with complex systems and network science—ranging from multilayer networks and agent-based simulations to digital twins, economic complexity, and statistical physics. This methodological synthesis enables the identification of emergent patterns, feedbacks, and critical thresholds in systems from supply chains to social dynamics.
- Applied, High-Impact Partnerships
- Through collaborations with government, industry, and non-profits, CSH conducts research with direct real-world relevance. Projects include modeling migration impacts on public services, analyzing long-term national health insurance data to uncover new co-morbidity pathways and early warning signals, and studying disease transmission and supply chain dynamics in the livestock sector. These partnerships provide access to rich datasets while ensuring research informs policy and practice.
- A Truly Interdisciplinary Community
- CSH works without disciplinary silos. Researchers from physics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences collaborate closely, enabling rapid cross-fertilization of methods and ideas. With over 140 external faculty worldwide, CSH offers a globally connected research environment centered in Vienna.
How to Apply
- Step 1: Contact the Complexity Science Hub to discuss the possibility of a research stay.
- Step 2: Submit your application through HIDA
- Step 3: Applications are reviewed by a selection committee, and you will be notified shortly thereafter.
You can find more details about the application process here!
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If you have any questions about the Austria Mobility Program or our other research stay offerings, please don’t hesitate to contact us at any time.
Stefanie Gruber-Sliva
Networks & Mobility Program Manager
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