Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences of ETH Zurich and affiliated at its Computer Science Department. His studies focus on pedestrian dynamics and traffic flows, computer simulations of social processes, globally networked risks and disasters, a socio-ecological finance system, digital democracy and smarter cities - upgraded by co-creation and collective intelligence. At Delft University of Technology, he heads the PhD School "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future". He is also an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences „Leopoldina“ and worked in the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems