Dr. Jörn Grahl

Hello, and welcome to my homepage. I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Johannes Gutenberg-University. I graduated from Mannheim as Diplom-Kaufmann in 2004, obtained my PhD (summa cum laude) from Mannheim in 2008.

I study how information flows in social networks. My research addresses diffusion in social networks, seeding strategies in network-based/viral marketing, models of social contagion and related topics. I am also interested in how groups or societies solve problems collectively and how the social structure can influence the results. Another research area is computational intelligence and optimization techniques for problems in supply networks.

I teach 'Network analysis in the information age' to Master students (see this blog), an introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and introductory and advanced courses on Information Systems.

Talk to me about information in networks, complex networked systems, and optimization.
Publications and other academic activities are listed in my CV.

Students looking for research projects in any of the above areas should contact me by eMail.