Scientists Mengguang Li, Marcian Seeger and Timon Dörnfeld strengthen Program Areas Communication, Information and City and Society
At the beginning of January, the LOEWE Center emergenCITY welcomed three new scientists. Two were already part of the team as associate researchers. The researchers come from different departments at TU Darmstadt and Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Mengguang Li, a PhD candidate in the Self-Organizing Systems Lab at TU Darmstadt, has been an associated scientist at emergenCITY since April 2023. He supports the Program Area Communication. Previously, he worked as a development engineer at the car manufacturer Honda. He obtained his Master of Science in Mechatronics at TU Darmstadt.
He is currently researching modular multi-agent aviation systems that can work together cooperatively. The system structure can be easily adapted to different requirements.
“The modularity can effectively contribute to emergency communication and is also easily scalable,” Mengguang Li explains.
Marcian Seeger has been a doctoral student in the Big Data Analytics research group at the Philipps-Universität Marburg since September 2023 and an associated research assistant in the Information Program Area at emergenCITY since June 2024. He completed his Master of Science in Computer Science, also at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
The computer scientist is currently working on a metadata discovery engine and an associated language. The aim is to extract structured data, such as statistics and dependencies, from available data.
“This metadata can then be used for numerous applications to either speed up processes or make them possible in the first place,” Marcian Seeger says. This could also make data integration in the context of emergenCITY more robust, flexible and efficient. “I’m looking forward to getting a taste of other research areas at emergenCITY, collaborating and learning new things.”
New to emergenCITY is Timon Dörnfeld, a doctoral student at Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) at TU Darmstadt. At emergenCITY, he will mainly strengthen the Program Area Information, but will also contribute to the Program Area City and Society. In his master’s thesis, the physicist dealt with symmetry breaking in neutron-rich matter.
He is currently researching submarine cables and the resilience of critical infrastructure. His focus is on disruption analyses of networks. He is also working on statistical methods for communication and network evaluation.
“With my work, I don’t just want to provide technical analyses,” Timon Dörnfeld says, ”but to examine infrastructures not in isolation and in the context of society. Cities as micro-cosmos of a society based on the division of labor provide the starting and ending point for scientific debates on critical infrastructures.”
