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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.
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 15 Life on Land
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POLARCLIMATE: Inferring the cross-platform structures of socio-political POLARization around CLIMATE change on social media
Falkenberg, M. (PI) & Peixoto, T. P. (Researcher)
European Commission - Horizon Europe - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Postdoctoral Fellowhips
1/10/24 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Driving sustainability transitions through financial tipping points
Ameli, N., Chenet, H., Falkenberg, M., Kothari, S., Rickman, J. & Lamperti, F., 26 Feb 2025, In: Earth System Dynamics. 16, 1, p. 333-345 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How language, culture, and geography shape online dialogue: Insights from Koo
Mekacher, A., Falkenberg, M. & Baronchelli, A., 21 Aug 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 8, p. 1-21 21 p., e0329838.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media
Loru, E., Galeazzi, A., Bonetti, A., Sangiorgio, E., Di Marco, N., Cinelli, M., Falkenberg, M., Baronchelli, A. & Quattrociocchi, W., 14 Oct 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 13 p., 35816.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms
Storani, S., Falkenberg, M., Quattrociocchi, W. & Cinelli, M., 28 May 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 15 p., 18629.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Patterns of partisan toxicity and engagement reveal the common structure of online political communication across countries
Falkenberg, M., Zollo, F., Quattrociocchi, W., Pfeffer, J. & Baronchelli, A., 14 Nov 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, p. 9560 9560.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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