Mathias Angermaier was a PhD candidate at the Complexity Science Hub until the end of September, after joining in October 2023.

He worked on the research project “Collective Adaptation” to detect patterns in societal belief dynamics. Within this framework, he was particularly interested in identifying discussion characteristics that led to common ground between opinion-opposed and polarized agents.

Mathias holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics from the University of Regensburg and a Master’s Degree in Computational Social Systems from TU Graz, where he was also pursuing his PhD.

In his Master’s thesis, he focused on the algorithmic detection and differentiation of conspiracy theory topics in online chats. Additionally, he investigated conversation patterns linked to stronger or weaker conspiratorial discussion intensities.