Michael Szell
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Research assistant
Medical University of Vienna
Spitalgasse 23
1090 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 40400 2080
Fax: +43 1 40400 3332
E-Mail: michael.szell@meduniwien.ac.at
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Michael Szell is PhD student in technical physics at the Vienna University of Technology and research assistant at the Complex Systems Research Group since 2008. He was born 1983 in Budapest, Hungary (as Széll Mihály) and grew up in Austria, near Vienna.
He received his master (academic degree of "Diplom-Ingenieur") in technical mathematics - with focus on computer science - at the Vienna University of Technology in 2007. Szell's scientific interests are widespread and involve simulation and the analysis of complex systems and nonlinear dynamics, social network analysis and sociophysics, as well as econophysics and behavioral economics. His interests also cover theoretical topics such as evolutionary game theory, graph theory, set theory, computational complexity theory.
Besides pursuing his studies, Szell has co-developed a browser-based massive multiplayer online game since 2004. As of 2009 the game has a worldwide user-base of over 300,000 players and is actively played by 15,000 people. For commercially handling the game he co-founded an enterprise in 2006 of which he is manager. The main part of his PhD studies involve analyzing socio-economic behavior and (evolution of) social networks of players from his online game.
The hobbies of Michael Szell include playing Badminton, Tennis, Squash, and the piano, programming, reading, and enjoying life in and around Vienna. Szell is fluent in German, English, as well as Hungarian due to his Hungarian ancestry.