Katharina A Zweig

Katharina A. Zweig has studied biochemistry and bioinformatics at the University Tubingen, Germany (1996-2006). In her doctoral studies, she was concerned with the relation of local structure and global behavior in the evolution of complex networks (2007, University Tubingen, Germany). Her postdoc was done in statistical physics at ELTE University, Hungary (2008-09); after that she lead an independent junior research group at University Heidelberg, Germany (2009-2012). Since 2012, she is a...See more

Katharina A. Zweig has studied biochemistry and bioinformatics at the University Tubingen, Germany (1996-2006). In her doctoral studies, she was concerned with the relation of local structure and global behavior in the evolution of complex networks (2007, University Tubingen, Germany). Her postdoc was done in statistical physics at ELTE University, Hungary (2008-09); after that she lead an independent junior research group at University Heidelberg, Germany (2009-2012). Since 2012, she is a professor for "Graph Theory and Complex Network Analysis" at TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. She is a Junior Fellow of the German Society of Computer Science and was elected as one of 39 Digital Thinkers ("Digitale Koepfe") in 2014 in Germany. Since she started to work on the use of centrality indices in network analysis in 2003, network analysis literacy has been her main concern. Currently, her research is focused on the more general question of how to make algorithms accountable, i.e., how to make sure that an algorithm's numerical answer matches the intuition behind the problem modeled by it. In 2016, she co-founded Algorithm Watch, a non-profit organisation to hold algorithms accountable and to consult society, politics, industry and public institutions about all questions concerning algorithm accountability. See less