Markus Strohmaier leads the Chair for Data-Science in the Economic and Social Sciences at University of Mannheim (Germany). He is the Scientific Coordinator for Digital Behavioral Data at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and an External Faculty Member at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.

From 2013-2017 he was a Professor (W3) for Web-Science at University of Koblenz-Landau and the founder and scientific director of the department for Computational Social Science at GESIS. From 2017-2021 he held the Chair for Computational Social Science and Humanities (W3) at RWTH Aachen University. Before that he was a Post-Doc at the University of Toronto (Canada), an Assistant Professor at Graz University of Technology (Austria), a visiting scientist at (XEROX) Parc (USA), and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (USA). He was Editor in Chief for EPJ Data-Science from 2018-2022 and a founding co-chair of the Computational Social Science section of the German Informatics Society. Markus is interested in applying and developing computational techniques to research challenges on the intersection between computer science and the economic and social sciences.