Max Falkenberg

Max Falkenberg is a computational social scientist and a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Network and Data Science. He also holds a Visiting Fellow position at the Institute for Sustainable Resources at UCL. He completed his PhD in Physics at Imperial College London in 2022 and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Mathematics at City, University of London in 2024.

His research applies network science to problems in computational social science. He is particularly interested in studying the structural underpinnings of political polarisation, climate communication and politics, and climate finance. He has published multiple peer-reviewed papers, including in Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, PNAS Nexus, PLOS Climate, Physical Review E, Physical Review Research, Communications Physics, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B. He also contributed to a report released at COP28 on climate tipping points and published a dataset at ICWSM'24 for the Indian microblogging platform Koo.