Michael Szell
Associate Professor
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolMichael Szell is an Associate Professor and urban/geospatial data scientist with nine years of academic and research experience focused on network science, sustainable mobility, and data-driven city studies. He combines rigorous mathematical training (PhD in Physics, MSc in Mathematics) with hands-on skills in Matlab and Python to model and analyze complex transport and social networks. Based in Copenhagen, he maintains active ties to Complexity Science Hub Vienna and has a track record translating research into practical tools and platforms—creator of projects like GrowBike.Net and whatthestreet.com and long-time developer of the MMO Pardus. His work blends theoretical modeling with applied data visualization to inform sustainable mobility decisions, and he often bridges academia, industry, and civic tech through collaborative fellowships and embedded research roles.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyPhysics, PhD, Physics, PhD at University of Vienna
Github Skills (36)
openstreetmap10
network-visualization10
network-analysis10
urban-planning10
osmnx10
gis10
geospatial-visualization10
complex-networks10
social-network-analysis10
sna10
graph-theory10
twitter9
python9
geospatial9
geospatial-analysis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mszell/introdatasci
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
Course materials for: Introduction to Data Science and Programming
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
data-sciencepythonteaching-materialscrash-coursenetwork-analysis
mszell/homepage_mszell
Jul 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:249 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 11 months
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