Dominik P.H. Kalisch
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | Shidler College of Business | 2404 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Phone: +1 (808) 956-7580 | E-mail: dominik.kalisch@hawaii.edu | http://www.kalisch.biz
Professional Experience
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Honolulu, USA
Visiting Assistant Professor | Shidler College of Business Aug 2014 - Present • Development of an Urban Living Lab within the “Morgenstadt” (City of the Future) project
• Research in urban development analysis with quantitative and qualitative approaches such as expert interviews, network analysis and predictive modeling
• Form student research group within the United Nations HDX project
Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO Stuttgart, Germany
Senior Research Scientist | Department of Information and Communication Technology May 2012 - Jul 2014 • Developed the research strategy for the “Morgenstadt” (City of the Future) project and the database system, led
a team of scientists while conducting research in New York City
• Visualized the collected data using R, Python and d3.js for print and web usage
• Research in urban development analysis with quantitative and qualitative approaches like expert interviews, network analysis and predictive modeling
• Consulted companies and governmental agencies in information management and master data management
State Office for Environment, Health and Consumer Protection Potsdam, Germany
Head of Health and Infection Reporting May 2011 - Apr 2012 • Led the Project management and group leadership for health reporting
• Conducted epidemiological and statistical analysis using logistical regression, predictive modeling with R and SPSS
• Compiled health status reports of the population for the government and prepared health-related answers for the ministry of health
• General policy development in the section of health report
Bauhaus-University Weimar Weimar, Germany
Research Fellow | Dep. Informatics in Architecture and Sociology of Urban Planning May 2009 - Jun 2012
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Developed a statistical procedure in the research project “CoMStaR - Computer-Based Methods for a Socially Sustainable Urban and Regional Planning” to predict which subpopulation wants to live where•
Performed statistical and sociological analysis of the simulating process and transformed the sociological knowledge in formal modelsGerman Center of Gerontology Berlin, Germany
Research Associate Mar 2008 - Oct 2009 • Oversaw and planned the editorial process for the Institute journal
• Researched and compiled scientific news for the scientific and political newsletter • Edited articles and acted as contact person for authors
• Wrote scientific papers concerning urban gerontology and aging studies in politics
Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometric and Epidemiology Essen, Germany
Research Associate | Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometric and Epidemiology Jul 2007 - Mar 2008 • Tutored medical students in statistics
• Assisted in epidemiology projects, studies, and science administration • Researched and calculated epidemiological data with SPSS
• Developed questionnaires for urban health project
Education
Bauhaus-University Weimar Weimar, Germany
PhD Student | Dep. Informatics in Architecture and Sociology of Urban Planning 2008 - 2013
• Degree: Doctorate in Engineering (Dr. Eng.) - Summa cum laude
• Doctoral studies in Social Science / machine learning algorithms and predictive modeling • Dissertation thesis: Who wants to live where?
• Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation scholarship
Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow | Dep. Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics 2009 - 2010 • Conducted research in the field of urban development analysis for the doctoral thesis using singular value
decomposition and network analysis techniques with R and Matlab • Provided sociological knowledge for departmental research projects
University Duisburg-Essen Duisburg and Essen, Germany
Social Sciences 2005 - 2008
• Degree: Diploma in Social Sciences (Equivalent to Bachelor & Master of Science)
• Priority in the sociology of urban development and knowledge-, quality-, and cluster management Diploma thesis: Project Evaluation “Social City” in Essen using Network Analysis
Social Education 1999 - 2002
• Degree: Diploma in Social Education (Equivalent to Bachelor & Master of Education)
• Specialization in social community politics, education and modeling social behavior • Diploma thesis: Empirical Analysis and Formal Modeling of Group Dynamics
Teaching
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Honolulu, USA
Visiting Assistant Professor | Shidler College of Business 2014 - Present • Business Statistics (BUS310) (undergraduate course)
• Mentor for an honors student group who works with the United Nations HDX project (graduate level)
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation International
Mentor 2012 - Present • Mentor for scholarship recipients
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Germany
Lecturer | Department Business Informatics 2013 - 2014 • Statistics (undergraduate course)
Stuttgart Media University Stuttgart, Germany
Lecturer | Department of Print and Media Technology 2013 - 2014 • Statistics (undergraduate course)
University of Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany
Senior Research Scientist | Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO 2012 - 2014 • Mentor for research assistants and junior fellows
• Advisor for Bachelor and Master theses • Advisor for student research interns
Bauhaus-University Weimar Weimar, Germany
Lecturer | Department of Urban Planning 2011 - 2012 • Statistics for urban planers, geographers and architects (graduate course)
Awards
Full PhD Scholarship Germany
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation 2008 - 2012 • Received a full PhD Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement and social and political involvement.
Best Thesis Award Germany
University of Duisburg-Essen 2008 • The diploma thesis (equivalent to master thesis) “Project Evaluation “Social City” in Essen using Network
Extra-Curricular and Volunteer Experience
UN Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) project New York, USA
Data Scientist 2014 - Present • Support the HDX team in master data management and quality data management
• Develop a dashboard to visualize statistical data from the HDX CKAN server • Participate in statistical analyses
Scholar representative in the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Bonn, Germany
Representative 2009 - 2011 • Handled scholarship recipient petitions
• Organized the scholars’ self-government
German Civil Service at the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (Emergency medical service) Essen, Germany
Military / Civilian Service 1998 - 1999 • Trained in emergency medicine
• Received training in disaster control
Publications
Papers in journals
• Kalisch, Dominik (2012): Wissen wer wo wohnt. [Knowing who lives where]. Weimar: Universität Weimar. • Köhler, H.; König, R.; Anders, F.; Kalisch, D.; Steinhöfel, J. (2009): Computer-based methods for a socially
sustainable urban and regional planning. In: International Journal of Sustainability, Technology and Humanism. Volume 04, pp.115-124. Barcelona: Universitat Poliècnica de Catalunya.
• Kalisch, Dominik (2009): Wohnstandortbedürfnisse älterer Menschen.[Residential Needs of Elderly People in Germany]. In: Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (Ed.): Informationsdienst Altersfragen. Volume 04/09, pp. 8-12. Berlin: DZA.
• Kalisch, Dominik (2008): Repräsentanz Älterer in deutschen Parlamenten [Representation of Elderly in German Parliaments]. In: Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (Ed.): Informationsdienst Altersfragen. Volume 05/08, pp. 2-9. Berlin: DZA.
• Kalisch, Dominik (2008): Die Situation älterer Flüchtlinge - Belastungen und Potentiale [The Situation of Older Refugees - Burdens and Potentials]. In: Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (Ed.): Informationsdienst
Altersfragen. Volume 04/08, pp. 2-7. Berlin: DZA.
• Kalisch, Dominik (2008) Defizite demografischer Prognosen für die Kommunalentwicklung [Deficits of Demographical Projections in Community Development]. In: Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (Ed.): Informationsdienst Altersfragen. Volume 03/08, pp. 11-14. Berlin: DZA.
Books
• Kalisch, D.; Hahn, C.; Engelbach W.; Meyer, A. (2014): Integration von Freiwilligen in das Krisenmanagement [Integration of Volunteers in Disaster Management]. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer-Verlag.
• Kalisch, Dominik (2014): Wissen wer wo wohnen will [Knowing who wants to live where]. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer-Verlag
• Kalisch, Dominik (2012): Die Soziale Stadt: Eine netzwerkanalytische Evaluationsstudie [The Social City: A network analysis evaluation study]. Hamburg: Diplomica Verlag
• Kalisch, Dominik (2003): SIMS - Über die Möglichkeiten der Simulation gruppendynamischer Prozesse [SIMS - About the Possibilities to Simulate Group Dynamic Processes]. Marburg: Tectum Verlag
PhD Theses
• Kalisch, Dominik: Wissen wer wo wohnen will. Eine statistische Prozedur zur Analyse von optimalen Nachbarschaftsprofilen auf Basis des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels des Deutschen Instituts für
Wirtschaftsforschung. [Who wants to live where? A statistical procedure to analyze optimal neighborhood profiles based to the socio-economic panel study from the German Institute for Economic Research]. Weimar, 2013
Conference contributions
• Wendt, W.; Kalisch, D.; Vandieken, T.; Engelbach, W. (2014): Smart Cities and ICT - Insights from the Morgenstadt project. Proceedings RealCORP 2014
• Kalisch, Dominik (2014): Making Cities Smarter. Annual SRII Global Conference 2014, San José, CA • Engelbach, W.; Kalisch, D.; Hahn, C. (2013): Hypothesen zu Organisationen des Katastrophenschutz
• Steinhöfel, J.; Anders F.; Köhler H.; Kalisch D.; König R (2010): Computer-Based Methods for a Socially Sustainable Urban and Regional Planning - CoMStaR. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2010.
• Kalisch, Dominik; David, Vincent (2010): Neighbourhood Analysis Based on Complex Data Analysis of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 2010. • Anders, F.; König R.; Steinhöfel J.; Köhler H.; Kalisch D. (2010): Straßennetzwerkanalysen zur Unterstützung
sozialräumlicher Untersuchungen - das Projekt CoMStaR [Street Network Analysis to Support Social Environment Analysis - The CoMStaR project]
• Kalisch, D.; Anders, F.; König R.; Steinhöfel J.; Köhler H.; (2010): Computer-Bases Methods for a Socially Sustainabile Urban and Regional Planning. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2010.
• Köhler, H.; König R.; Steinhöfel J.; Kalisch D. (2009): Computer-based methods for a socially sustainable urban and regional planning. Conference on Sustainability Measurement and Modelling (ICSMM 09).
• Kalisch, Dominik (2009): Developing Management Strategies to Curb Urban Conflicts with Network Analysis and Simulation Methods. PSA Annual Conference 2009.
• Kalisch, Dominik (2008): Agent Based Simulations in Quarter Deployment. 4th UK Social Network Conference. London: Greenwich University.
Reports
• Kalisch, D.; Radecki, A.; Leisz, H.; Ockel, E.; Tettenborn, F.; Eisenbeiss, K.; Loleit, M. (2013): City Report “New York City”. Report within the Fraunhofer “Morgenstadt” research project. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering
• Hahn, C.; Engelbach, W.; Kalisch, D. (2013): Freiwilligenmanagement in den Organisationen des
Katastrophenschutzes [Volunteer Management in Disaster Relief Organizations]. In: BBE Sondernewsletter 31.10.2013, Nr. 22, Berlin: BBE
• Kalisch, Dominik (2012): Visualisierung der psychotherapeutischen Versorgungsdichte in Brandenburg [Visualizing the Density of Supply with Psychotherapists].
Invited Lectures
• Kalisch, Dominik; Kurz, Peter; Küchel, Lisa (03.02.2014): StadtLeben: Die Stadt von Morgen: Wie wollen wir leben? [City Living: How do we want to live tomorrow?]. Panel discussion StadtLeben. Stuttgart.
• Kalisch, Dominik (11.07.2013): Morgenstadt: City Insights. Analysen und Ergebnisse aus New York [Analyses and Results from New York]. Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Stuttgart.
• Kalisch, Dominik (22.04.2013): Morgenstadt: City Insights. New York Department of City Planning. New York City.
• Kalisch, Dominik (18.04.2013): Morgenstadt: City Insights. A research approach for systems research in urban development. Networking Dinner in Harvard Club. New York City.
• Kalisch, Dominik (07.02.2013): Morgenstadt: City Insights. A project approach. SmartX meeting of the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation. Stuttgart.
Work in progress
• Kalisch, Dominik; Bui, Tung: ICT solutions to support evidence based city governance.
• Kalisch, Dominik: Estimation of Optimal Neighborhood Profiles Based on Social and Built Infrastructures • Kalisch, Dominik: Living Preferences of American Citizens.