Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier

Markus Strohmaier

Markus Strohmaier

Chair for Data-Science in the Economic and Social Sciences
Business School, University of Mannheim, Germany

Scientific Coordinator for Digital Behavioral Data
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

External Faculty Member
Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria

About

Markus Strohmaier leads the Chair for Data-Science in the Economic and Social Sciences at University of Mannheim (Germany). He is the Scientific Coordinator for Digital Behavioral Data at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and an External Faculty Member at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
From 2013-2017 he was a Professor (W3) for Web-Science at University of Koblenz-Landau and the founder and scientific director of the department for Computational Social Science at GESIS. From 2017-2021 he held the Chair for Computational Social Science and Humanities (W3) at RWTH Aachen University. Before that he was a Post-Doc at the University of Toronto (Canada), an Assistant Professor at Graz University of Technology (Austria), a visiting scientist at (XEROX) Parc (USA), and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (USA). He was Editor in Chief for EPJ Data-Science from 2018-2022 and a founding co-chair of the Computational Social Science section of the German Informatics Society. Markus is interested in applying and developing computational techniques to research challenges on the intersection between computer science and the economic and social sciences.

News

  • January 2022: I have accepted a new position at University of Mannheim where I lead the Chair for Data-Science in the Economic and Social Sciences. I will remain affiliated with GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
  • June 2021: Papers accepted at KDD'21 ( .pdf) and Nature (.pdf)
  • April 2021: I joined the Complexity Science Hub Vienna as an external faculty member.
  • August 2020: New article accepted in Science. Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities ( .pdf)
  • June 2020: I was interviewed by Nature News to discuss the potential of computation and big data to contribute towards understanding society.
  • May 2019: New publication accepted in Nature Human Behavior. Homophily and minority size explain perception biases in social networks (preprint).

Awards

Selected awards and recognition of my research group:

  • 2016 Best Poster Award at NetSciX 2016, International School and Conference on Network Science, Best Poster ''Linguistic neighbourhoods: Explaining cultural borders on Wikipedia through multilingual co-editing activity'', Wroclaw, Poland, Co-Author
  • 2015 Best Paper Award at WWW'15, the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2015), Best Paper ''Hyptrails: A bayesian approach for comparing hypotheses about human trails'', Firenze, Italy, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2015 Best Paper Award at WebSci'15, the ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci2015), Best Paper ''Mining cross-cultural relations from Wikipedia - A study of 31 European food cultures'', Oxford, UK, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2015 Honorable Mention Award at ICWSM'15, the 9th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Honorable Mention Award ''Voting behaviour and power in online democracy: A study of LiquidFeedback in Germany’s pirate party'', Oxford, UK, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2014 Best Paper Award at ICWSM'14, the 8th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Best Paper ''When politicians talk: Assessing online conversational practices of political parties on twitter'', Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2014 Outstanding Poster Award at NetSci'14, International School and Conference on Network Science, Outstanding Poster ''Navigation Dynamics in Recommendation Networks'', Berkeley, CA, USA, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2013 Best Workshop Paper Award at MSM'2013, the 3rd workshop on ’Making Sense of Microposts’ (MSM'2013) held at the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’2013), Best Workshop Paper ''Meaning as Collective Use: Predicting Hashtag Semantics on Twitter'', Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2013 ACM Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award Nominee at Hypertext 2013, 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT’2013), for the paper Models of human navigation in information networks based on decentralized search, Paris, France, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2012 Best Paper Award at Social Computing 2012, the ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2012), Best Paper ''Ignorance isn't Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities'', Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2012 Best Paper Award at I-Know 2012, the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. ACM, Best Paper ''Exploring Differences and Similarities between Hierarchical Decentralized Search and Human Navigation in Information Networks'', Graz, Austria, Co-Author ( .pdf)
  • 2010 Best Paper Award at the ESWC'10 PhD Symposium, Advisor of PhD student Claudia Wagner, Best Paper ''Exploring the Wisdom of the Tweets: Towards Knowledge Acquisition from Social Awareness Streams'', Heraklion, Greece, PhD Advisor
  • 2009 Best Poster Award at K-CAP'09 (sponsored by ACM SIGART) for the poster "Analyzing Human Intentions in Natural Language Text", Los Angeles, U.S.A., (best poster out of 21 submissions, 4.76% quota), Co-Author ( .pdf paper, .pdf poster)
  • 2009 1st place ACM SIGWEB Hypertext'09 Graduate Student Research Challenge, Advisor of PhD student Christian Koerner, "The Motivation behind Tagging", Torino, Italy, PhD Advisor ( .pdf)
  • 2007 Best Paper Nomination at the HICSS-40 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, for the paper ''Analyzing Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness – An Agent-Oriented Approach'', in the ''Knowledge Management Systems'' category Hawaii, U.S.A., Co-Author ( .pdf)

Grants

Selected grants:

Publications

For more information on publications please consult my Google Scholar profile.

Selected publications:

  • P. Singer, D. Helic, A. Hotho, and M. Strohmaier. Hyptrails: A bayesian approach for comparing hypotheses about human trails. In 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2015), Firenze, Italy, May 18 - May 22, ACM, 2015. Best Paper Award (acceptance rate 131/929, 14.10% quota) ( .pdf)
  • H. Lietz, C. Wagner, A. Bleier, and M. Strohmaier. When politicians talk: Assessing online conversational practices of political parties on twitter. In International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM2014), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June 2-4, 2014. Best Paper Award (acceptance rate 64/279, 22.93% quota) ( .pdf)
  • P. Laufer, C. Wagner, F. Flöck and M. Strohmaier. Mining cross-cultural relations from Wikipedia - A study of 31 European food cultures. In ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci2015), Oxford, UK, June 28 - July 1, ACM, 2015. Best Paper Award ( .pdf)
  • C. Kling, J. Kunegis, H. Hartmann, M. Strohmaier and S. Staab. Voting behaviour and power in online democracy: A study of LiquidFeedback in Germany’s pirate party. In International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM2015), Oxford, UK, May 26-29, 2015. Honorable Mention Award (acceptance rate 63/343, 18.37% quota) ( .pdf)
  • C. Wagner, M. Rowe, M. Strohmaier and H. Alani. Ignorance isn't Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities. In ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2012), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012. Best Paper Award ( .pdf)

Services

Conference- and Workshop Organization

  1. IC2S2 2017
    General Co-chair
  2. ICWSM 2016
    General Co-chair
  3. ISWC'15
    Co-chair of the Empirical Studies and Experiments special research track
  4. ACM Hypertext 2015
    Co-chair of the Digital Humanity track
  5. ESWC 2015
    Co-chair of the Semantic Web and Web-Science track
  6. ACM WebSci'14
    PC co-chair
  7. RAMMS'13 at WWW 2013
    Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams (RAMSS)
  8. ACM Hypertext and Social Media 2012
    PC chair
  9. RAMMS'12 at ICWSM 2012
    Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams (RAMSS)
  10. ACM Hypertext 2011
    Co-chair of the Social Media track
  11. MSM'10 at Hypertext 2010
    Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Modeling Social Media
  12. KASW'08 at TRIPLE-I'08
    Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from the Social Web
  13. CSKGOI'08 at IUI'08
    Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal Oriented Interfaces (Workshop Summary)
  14. BPOKI'06 at I-Know'06
    Co-Organizer of the 3rd Workshop on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures
  15. BPOKI'05 at I-Know'05
    Co-Organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures (J.UKM Special Issue)
  16. BPOKI'04 at I-Know'04
    Co-Organizer of the 1st Workshop on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures (J.UCS Special Issue)

contact

Please get in touch via:

firstname.lastname@uni-mannheim.de
University of Mannheim, L15, 1-6, 68161 Mannheim, Germany

firstname.lastname@gesis.org
GESIS, Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany