Rico Herzog

Rico Herzog is the lead for modelling, simulation, AI, and machine learning in Germany’s largest smart city project, ‘Connected Urban Twins’, and a research associate at the City Science Lab at HafenCity University Hamburg, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab. With a background in spatial planning and in computational modelling and simulation of complex sociotechnical systems, his research revolves around urban digital twins and their contribution to a sustainable urban transformation. Focussing on the interplay of digital models and simulations of various kinds, he explores new multi-modelling approaches on capturing urban complexity in the digital sphere. Further academic interests lie in public value conflicts in urban planning and in serious gaming as a simulation method.