Career
He is both director of the Center BiBoS (Bielefeld-Bonn Stochastics) and deputy managing director of the Center for Interdisciplinary (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, ZiF) at Bielefeld University. Concurrent with that he is also editor of "Progress in Mathematical Physics", "Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry", and „Fundamental Theories of Physics". Among his 240 scientific publications are books such as „Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Stochastic Mechanics" (with P Combe & West Zheng, 1987), "Mathematical Methods in Physics: Distributions, Hilbert Space Operators and Variational Methods" (with East Brüning, 2002), and "Mathematical Analysis of Urban Spatial Networks" (with Doctorate Volchenkov, 2008).
His fields of interest comprise the application of functional analyses and probability theory (stochastic analyses, random graphs), quantum and statistical physics (percolation theory, self-organized criticality), epidemiology (disease spreading), and sociology (learning as a social process, social contagion).
NEMO – Network Models, Governance and R&Doctorate collaboration networks (European Union, 2006–2009) Network formation rules, random set graphs and generalized epidemic processes (Volkswagen Foundation, 2006–2009). From basic concepts and methods on the structure and function of complex networks to modeling of concrete real world networks (Volkswagen Foundation, 2004–2006) O. North.
