Professor and Head of Study program for the Computer Science degree programme (B.Sc., M.Sc., Dual Programmes)
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Head of Study Program
Prof. Dr. Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad
About me
I am currently a Professor of Computer Science at SRH University of Applied Sciences. I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Department of Physics at Sharif University of Technology (SUT), one of the top universities in the Middle East, and hold a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Leipzig University in Germany. After completing a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden, Germany, I worked as a Principal Investigator (PI) at the Technical Universities of Berlin (TUB) and Dresden (TUD). I have also held positions as an Assistant Professor in Physics at SUT, a Research Staff Associate in the Quantitative Life Sciences section at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, and as a Senior Researcher at the Robert Koch Institute (Public Health), the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Public Health), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany.
Selected teaching experiences:
- Lecturer, Sharif University of Technology (2019-2022): “Computational Physics”, "Modelling Contagious Phenomena", "Non-linear Dynamics & Chaos", "Advanced Topics on Complex Systems"
- Lecturer, SRH's School of Technology and Architecture, Campus Leipzig (Since 2024): “Programming”, “Tools & Methods of Data Analysis”, “Advanced Mathematics”, “Scientific Work”, “Game Design”
Selected grants awarded:
- Principal Investigator, Eigene Stelle grant by DFG (German Research Foundation), TU Dresden, 2020.
- Principal Investigator, Eigene Stelle grant by DFG (German Research Foundation), TU Berlin, 2017.
- Principal Investigator, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship by IRC, University of Limerick, 2015. (I decided to decline the offer in favour of my position in Berlin)
I have contributed to these publications
Selected peer-reviewed publications:
- W. Cai, L. Chen, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, P. Grassberger "Avalanche-Outbreaks Emerging in Cooperative Contagions" Nature Physics 11, 936–940 (2015)
- Z. Ghadiri, A. Mashhad, M. Timme, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, “Recreational Mobility Prior and During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, (Nature) Communications Physics volume 7, Article number: 55 (2024)
- Yazdan Babazadeh Maghsoodlo, Amin Safaeesirat, and Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, “The Big Bang of an epidemic: a metapopulation approach to identify the spatiotemporal origin of contagious dis-eases and their universal spreading pattern” (Nature) Scientific Reports 2025:15, 5809.
- J. P. Rodríguez, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, V. M. Eguíluz, "Particle velocity controls phase transitions in contagion dynamics" (Nature) Scientific Reports 2019; 9: 6463
- Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, K. Klemm; “Stability of Boolean and continuous dynamics”; Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188701 (2011)
- Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, M. Gerlach, J. M. Miotto, E. G. Altmann; “Extracting information from S-curves of language change; J. R. Soc. Interface vol 11, no 101, (2014) 1044.
- L. Chen, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, W. Cai, P. Grassberger “Outbreaks of coinfections: the critical role of cooperativity”; EPL 104 (2013) 50001.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZtRhT8AAAAJ&hl=en
Website: sites.google.com/view/fakhtehgh/
Book:
F. Ghanbarnejad, et al. (Eds) “Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks” Volume III: “Machine learning and statistical physics approaches”, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, ISBN: 978-3-030-14682-5 (2019).
Research Interests:
Complex Systems & Networks, Data Science, Statistical Physics, Mathematical & Computational Epidemiology, Econo & Socio Physics, Evolution of language.