Prof. Dr. Armin Seyfried

Director of the IAS-7

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Civil Safety Research (IAS-7)

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Armin Seyfried studied theoretical physics at the University of Wuppertal. His research interests include complex systems, pedestrian dynamics, crowds, collective phenomena and traffic with a focus on applications in security research. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly important to him in research in the field of crowd dynamics. Since 2004, he has been working at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, where he established the ‘Civil Security and Traffic’ department. In 2018, the department was transferred to the ‘Institute for Advanced Simulation’ in the ‘Civil Safety Research’ division, which Mr Seyfried heads as director. At the University of Wuppertal, he is a professor according to the Jülich model and heads the teaching and research area ‘Computer Simulation for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic’.

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April 1998 Ph.D. (Dr. rer.nat.), Faculty of Physics, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

1996 – 1999 Research assistant, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

1999 – 2004 Engineering consultant for fire safety, IfBW GmbH, Germany

2004 – 2010 Research assistant, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Since 2010 Chair of ‘Computer Simulations for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic’, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

2012 – 2018 Head of the division ‘Civil Security and Traffic’
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Since 2018 Director of the Institute of Advanced Simulation 7:
Civil Safety Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

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Selected publications:

Tordeux, A. and Seyfried, A., Collision-free non uniform dynamics within continuous optimal velocity models, Physical Review E 90(4), 042812, 2014 [10.1103/PhysRevE.90.042812]

Adrian, J., Seyfried, A., Sieben, A., Crowds in front of bottlenecks at entrances from the perspective of physics and social psychology. Interface 17(165), 20190871, 2020 [10.1098/rsif.2019.0871]

Küpper M., Seyfried A. Waiting in crowded places: influence of number of pedestrians, waiting time and obstacles. J. R. Soc. Interface. 2020230193, 2023 [10.1098/rsif.2023.0193]

Sieben A., Seyfried A. Inside a life-threatening crowd: Analysis of the Love Parade disaster from the perspective of eyewitnesses, Safety Science, 166, 2023 [10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106229]

Yue J., Li B., Pettré J., Seyfried A., Wang H. Human Motion Prediction under Unexpected Perturbation accept for CVPR 2024, 2024
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.15891

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