Timo Damm

Timo Damm is a PhD candidate at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU).

His educational trajectory includes:

• 2024: PhD candidate in the "Digital Innovation School" (Complexity Science Hub Vienna)
• 2022-2024: Master in "Research in Public Administration and Organisational Science" (M.Sc) with "Complex Systems" track and Graduate Honours Interdisciplinary Seminars
• 2019-2022: Bachelor in "Global Management of Social Issues" (B.Sc.) with Tilburg Outreaching Honors Programme

Damm investigates collective adaptation and resilience in activist and political collectives through empirical qualitative methods and agent-based modeling. His interdisciplinary work connects organizational theory with computational approaches to examine how social movements navigate evolving challenges. His research bridges social sciences with mathematical modeling, focusing on relational dynamics within networked action collectives.

He has presented his work at academic conferences, including an upcoming presentation at Sunbelt 2025 on "LLM-aided Analysis of Adaptation Processes in a Networked Direct Action Collective" in Paris.

Professional experience includes Research Assistant at Utrecht School of Governance and Student Assistant positions in Organisational Science and Statistics at Tilburg University.