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Global pandemics, supply-chain disruptions, armed conflicts, energy shortages: Our world is becoming ever more interconnected and interdependent – and thus complex. Faced with this growing complexity, where local events, like a single supply chain hiccup or a regional disease outbreak, can send ripples across the globe, society becomes more susceptible to crises.

This same complexity can also be harnessed for collaboration across disciplines and sectors to develop creative methods and effective solutions. What is needed to move from problem to solution is a thorough understanding of the complex systems that underlie our world.

Through this understanding, we aim to make smart predictions about how systems will respond to change and what can be done to steer them in directions that benefit all of society.

Creating a profound scientific understanding of complex systems demands an enormous amount of data. To translate this data into meaning, we need to develop novel paradigms, approaches, methods, and tools using our transdisciplinary expertise. We are transdisciplinary for a very specific reason: to solve problems that cannot be addressed successfully in any other way.

By working within a community of collaborators, we ensure that our discoveries have a direct real-world impact. In parallel, we train future generations of scientists who can apply these powerful approaches to find intelligent solutions for future problems – both those we can foresee as well as those we cannot yet imagine.