The word validation should be struck from the vocabulary of modellers. All models are wrong, so no models are valid or verifiable in the sense of establishing the truth. (John Sterman)
Focal areas of work
- Urban Mobility
- Robotics
- Social network analysis
- Simulation and modeling
- Big Data
Curriculum Vitae
Sebastian Weide studied Environmental Systems and Resource Management (M.Sc.) and European Studies (B.A.) at Universität Osnabrück (Germany), Université de Liège (Belgium) and University of Victoria (Canada). Since 2016, he has been working for VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH as a research fellow in the department of Demographic Change and Futures Studies. At the Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit) Sebastian works on a variety of analysis projects and conducts data analyses of different kinds.
Publications
- Digitale Souveränität: Bürger – Unternehmen – Staat (2017)
- Digitalisierung für mehr Optionen und Teilhabe im Alter: Studie im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung (2017)
- Potenziale, Chancen und Risiken neuer Entwicklungen im Bereich der Robotik in der Region Hannover: Studie im Auftrag der Wirtschaftsförderung der Region Hannover (2017)