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Author: Dr. Haiko Lietz

Haiko Lietz is a senior researcher at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany. He is interested in everything related to fractals and applying percolation theory and complexity theory to social systems.

Critical phenomena in networks: Report from the NetSci 2025 satellite symposium

This blog post explores how similar critical phenomena can be found in nature and society. At the first CPIN symposium during the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2025), researchers discussed models and empirical results regarding self-organization, phase transitions, and universal laws. Their contributions addressed neural, social, and …

18/07/2025 Dr. Haiko Lietz

Inequality in computer science results from the dynamics in a system that is dominantly male

Individual inequality increases, and gender inequality exists, regarding the number of papers by computer scientists. Both patterns vanish when only papers by first authors with durable careers are considered. Underneath lies the Matthew Effect, a mechanism of cumulative advantage that amplifies differences, including gender differences. These are the results from …

07/05/2024 Dr. Haiko Lietz

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