My research interests fall at the intersection of Middle East area studies and political sociology. I am interested in the interaction between regime repression and contentious mobilization in (mostly Arab) authoritarian regimes.

social-ecological modelling; cognitive modelling; agent-based modeling&simulation; data science; smart city modelling; artificial intelligence; large-scale simulation

Operations Management Production Planning Optimization Agribusiness Management Agent Based Modeling Complex Systems Biology Agent Based Intelligent Systems Complex Systems Complex Adaptive Systems Complex System Optimization, Optimization-simulation models.

1. Dynamics of socio-ecological resource use systems
   • Pasture use in dryland grazing systems under change, effects of new technologies and policy instruments, emergence of polarization between pastoralists (e.g. in terms of livestock numbers).
   • Thresholds of disaster management performance under change, loss of manpower, the role of information as critical resource.
2. Human decision making in agent-based models.
3. Remote sensing and GIS.

Psychology

AI, Agent based modeling and Social Simulation

Agent-based computational economics, Economics of Migration, Behavioral Macroeconomics, Networks

Using Bayesian statistics for improving Agent based models and visa versa.