Aliakbar Akbaritabar
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research | Intro, CV and archive of presentations by Aliakbar Akbaritabar, use under GPL-3.0 License
Introduction
I am Aliakbar Akbaritabar (Ali), Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock and Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (since 2021).
I am a computational social scientist with a sociology background, focusing on social data science, demography, high-skilled migration, inequalities in the science system, and reproducible open science.
I hold a PhD in Economic Sociology and Labor Studies (University of Milan) and a PhD in Social Welfare (Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran).
I am open to tenure-track, tenured, and permanent positions in computational social science, social data science, demography, and sociology; below you can find my CV, publications, open materials, course resources, and presentation archive. Here is an overview of my research and teaching from 2013 to June 2026.
CV
See and download my CV here.
Recent Publications
For a complete and up-to-date publication list:
Replication Materials, Code, and Data
Courses and Syllabi
Current course syllabi (University of Rostock and MPIDR) are available here.
Selected openly available course materials:
- Introduction to Computational Social Science (2025)
- Computational Approaches to Migration Research (2025-2026)
- Interactive Self-Paced Course on Git, GitHub, and Reproducible Collaboration (2026)
- Introduction to Demographic Methods (2026)
Open Science Demography
With several colleagues, we have started the Open Science Demography, a community of demographers and social scientists committed to open science practices.
- Community: OpenScienceDemography
- Resource list: Awesome Demographic Methods
In June 2026 at the European Population Conference (University of Bologna), Tom Theile and I received the EAPS Open Science and Outreach Award for Population Studies for contributions to the Scholarly Migration Database.
Award details: EAPS Outreach Award
Computational Social Science Events Worldwide
I maintain a public calendar of computational social science events.
Read more and subscribe here.
Selected Posts from My Previous Website
My previous website included posts on data science and computational methods. Selected posts:
- Parallelized and Out-of-Memory Data Analysis with Dask, DuckDB, and DBeaver (ORCID 2019 XML case)
- How to Use a Wikidata Full JSON Dump
- Key Actors in HERSS: Flexdashboard in R
- Publication-Ready, Replicable Network Visualizations from Visone to R
- Google Scholar Shiny App (video intro)
- Git and GitHub/GitLab for Academic Writing (advanced topics update)
- Quantitative sociology of academic work in an era of hypercompetition and rankings
Contact
Email: akbaritabar [at] demogr.mpg.de
LinkedIn | BlueSky | Mastodon | Twitter: @akbaritabar
PDF Files of Presentations, Course Materials, and Dissertations
Presentation files are available under GPL-3.0 in this repository:
akbaritabar/akbaritabar.github.io
Citation template:
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Click on links to open each year’s presentations.
./CV_MD/20190411_Akbaritabar_2nd_PhD_Thesis_HyperCompetitiveAcademia.pdf
./CV_MD/20170613_Akbaritabar_1st_PhD_Thesis_CyberSocialCapital_inPersian.pdf
./CV_MD/20110704_Akbaritabar_MA_Thesis_SocialNetworkAnalysis_inPersian.pdf
./Courses_Syllabus/Course_introduction_to_demographic_methods_00_Course_Syllabus.pdf
./Courses_Syllabus/Course_introduction_to_CSS_Syllabus.pdf
./Courses_Syllabus/Course_computational_approaches_to_migration_research_Syllabus.pdf
./2024/20241113_University_of_Washington_ML_Nationality.pdf
./2024/20241018_UN_IOM_Berlin_Scholarly_Migration_Database.pdf
./2024/20240919_STI_Berlin_mobility_of_talents.pdf
./2024/20240613_EPC_ML_Nationality_SciMigration.pdf
./2024/20240413_PAA_poster_2_ML_Nationality.pdf
./2024/20240413_PAA_poster_1_ScientificCollaboration_Migration.pdf
./2024/20240321_CED_Barcelona_myths_stratification.pdf
./2023/20231120_Uni_Granada_mobility_workshop_SMD.pdf
./2023/20230911_BSPS_UK_internal_international_migr.pdf
./2023/20230705_ISSI2023_iDiv_Berlin_Scientific_Collaborations.pdf
./2023/20230629_0712_19_20_Sunbelt_NetSci_IC2S2_2023_SubnationalMigration.pdf
./2023/20230629_0712_19_20_Sunbelt_NetSci_IC2S2_2023_Stratification.pdf
./2023/20230202_PopDays_Italy_InternalInternational.pdf
./2022/20220521_African_Science_Day_Rostock_Scholarly_Migration.pdf
./2022/20220510_RMZ_HumboldUni_Berlin_Plasticity.pdf
./2022/20220422_Akbaritabar_biases_in_science.pdf
./2022/20220408_PAA2022_Internal_vs_international_scholarly_mobility_poster.pdf
./2022/20220408_PAA2022_Internal_vs_international_scholarly_mobility_flash_talk.pdf
./2022/20220221_MichiganUni_dask_duckdb_dbeaver_tutorial.pdf
./2021/20211214_MPIDR_DCoDe_informal_gathering_quiz.pdf
./2021/20211125_ICM_Paris_Akbaritabar_Zhao_Zagheni_Internal_vs_international_scholarly_mobility.pdf
./2021/20211120_IPCIUSSP_Akbaritabar_Zhao_Zagheni_Internal_vs_international_scholarly_mobility.pdf
./2021/20210928_DZHW_workshop_scholarly_mobility.pdf
./2021/20210707_27_Networks2021_IC2S2.pdf
./2020/20201023_26_DZHW_biblioGroup_DEKiF_ppt.pdf
./2020/20200930_2nd_PEERE_conference_reflistchanges.pdf
./2020/20200717_INSNA_Sunbelt_virtual.pdf
./2020/20200624_Mitchel_centre_for_SNA_Manchester_Zoominar.pdf
./2020/20200603_MPIDR_seminar_job_interview.pdf
./2020/20200506_UCL_Workshop_HE_internationalization.pdf
./2020/20200228_DEKiF_colloquium_Dusseldorf.pdf
./2020/20200121_DZHW_seminar_DEKiF_progress.pdf
./2019/20191121_HU_Berlin_Seminar_Network_Analysis.pdf
./2019/20191120_DZHW_biblioGroup_wos_disambiguation.pdf
./2019/20191017_DZHW_seminar_DEKiF_bibliometric_case.pdf
./2019/20190906_CNDSS_Sapienza_Rome.pdf
./2019/20190905_ISSI_STI_Rome.pdf
./2019/20190822_CASS_visit_DZHW_HERSS.pdf
./2019/20190718_IC2S2_computational_social_science.pdf
./2019/20190716_dzhw_report_ppt_markdown_template.pdf
./2019/20190618_University_of_Bielefeld_workshop_open_access.pdf
./2019/20190613_Academia_in_the_Age_of_Comparison_Hanover_HERSS_Poster.pdf
./2019/20190416_UNIMI_PhD_defense_speech.pdf
./2019/20190416_UNIMI_PhD_defense.pdf
./2019/20190219_HERSS_DZHW_seminar.pdf
./2018/20180629_INSNA_sunbelt_Utrecht.pdf
./2018/20180425_DZHW_job_interview.pdf
./2018/20180424_UCD_Dynamics_lab_with_Diane_Payne.pdf
./2018/20180312_UNIMI_yearly_colloquium.pdf
./2018/20180309_PEERE_Rome_poster.pdf
./2018/20180309_PEERE_Rome.pdf
./2018/20180216_CWTS_seminars.pdf
./2018/20180110_UNIBS_GECS_seminar.pdf
./2017/20170929_UNIBS_notte_ricercatori_GECS.pdf
./2017/20170929_UNIBS_notte_ricercatori_GECS_broshure.pdf
./2017/20170720_Iranian_sociological_association.pdf
./2017/20170628_UNIMI_yearly_colloquium.pdf
./2016/20161023_UNIMI_yearly_colloquium.pdf
./2016/20160628_UNIMI_yearly_colloquium.pdf
./2016/20160624_UNIBS_ABM_school.pdf
./2016/20160618_EUSN_Paris_GScholars_collaboartion.pdf
./2016/20160526_UNIMI_inequalities_social_capital.pdf
./2016/20160426_UNIMI_comparative_employment_relations_course.pdf
./2016/20160306_UNIMI_sociology_of_work.pdf
./2016/20160226_UNIMI_behavioral_game_theory.pdf
./2016/20160202_UNIMI_ETLM_course.pdf
./2016/20160127_UNIMI_comparative_employment_relations_course.pdf
./2015/20151202_UNIMI_economic_sociology_course.pdf
./2015/20150728_PNAUAB_Barcelona_Spain_shortened.pdf
./2015/20150728_PNAUAB_Barcelona_Spain.pdf
./2015/20150626_INSNA_Sunbelt_Brighton_UK_cyber_social_capital.pdf
./2015/20150517_Kollegg_School_Northwestern_USA_cyber_social_capital_poster.pdf
./2015/20150428_cyber_social_capital_Brest_Telecom_Bretagne.pdf
./2011_2014/20141203_Meta_analysis_of_Iranian_Social_media_Users.pdf
./2011_2014/20141115_onlineSNA_group_intro.pdf
./2011_2014/20130813_social_media_youth_lifestyle.pdf
./2011_2014/20130729_organizational_networks_analysis.pdf
./2011_2014/20121111_SNA_workshop_4_How_to_use_Pajek.pdf
./2011_2014/20121111_SNA_workshop_3_Methodological_considerations.pdf
./2011_2014/20121111_SNA_workshop_2_Theoretical_considerations.pdf
./2011_2014/20121111_SNA_workshop_1_Intro.pdf
./2011_2014/20120631_research_methods_for_online_networks.pdf
./2011_2014/20120129_SNA_workshop_4_Software_How_to_use_2_pajek.pdf
./2011_2014/20120129_SNA_workshop_3_Software_How_to_use_1_nodexl.pdf
./2011_2014/20120129_SNA_workshop_2_Methodology_Research_experience.pdf