Videos

A grab-bag of public-facing video content – podcast trailers, press features, popular lectures, academic talks. Ordered fun → serious; reverse-chronological within each section (newest first).

Fun: Dance Your PhD – 2024 · Podcast S2 – 2022 · Podcast S1 – 2021 · Data Stories – 2016

Features: VidenSkaber on life2vec – 2024 · EliteForsk portrait – 2022 · Villum YI portrait – 2018

Academic talks: DIEP – 2024 · NSI – 2024 · NICO – 2022 · SICSS-HSE – 2021 · IC2S2 keynote – 2021 · DTU Inaugural – 2019

Fun

Dance Your PhD 2024 – 22 January 2024

Lasse Mohr Mikkelsen’s choreographed take on his thesis Origins of Structure in Social Networks. Easily the best video on this page.

Too Lazy to Read the Paper, season 1 trailer – 23 March 2021

Trailer for the first season of my podcast about the papers I would have read if only I had the time. I worked hard on the jokes in this one, so a strong recommend!

Too Lazy to Read the Paper, season 2 trailer – 25 July 2022

Trailer for the second season. In this one I sing a song with a ukulele!!

Ulf Aslak’s Data Stories prize, Science magazine – 25 May 2016

Ulf Aslak’s interactive visualization of how people gather over time, winner of the 2016 Science magazine Data Stories competition. Background story: Data Stories: Ulf Aslak’s award-winning visualization. The video below is a 2024 demo capture of the original project.

Features

VidenSkaber on life2vec – 9 August 2024

Short feature in the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters’ VidenSkaber series on the life2vec work – what it does, what it doesn’t do, and why “AI predicts your death” headlines undersell the actual research. (In Danish.)

EliteForsk Prize 2022 portrait – 23 February 2022

The Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Research’s portrait piece accompanying the 2022 EliteForsk Prize. (In Danish.)

VILLUM Young Investigator portrait – 19 January 2018

Portrait piece for the VILLUM Young Investigator Programme (The Velux Foundations), directed by Ole Stenum. The best feature anyone has ever made about the work – Ole and I became friends afterwards, which I think shows in the result.

Popular talks

Royal Academy on life2vec – 4 March 2025

Public lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters on the life2vec work – Dit liv på algoritme: how residence, health data, and employment combine to predict life trajectories. (In Danish.)

EliteForsk Lecture, Royal Academy – 10 March 2022

EliteForsk Prize lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters: what we can learn about people from their electronic footprints. (In Danish.)

TEDxAarhus – 6 October 2018

My TEDxAarhus talk on predicting social interactions. Not my finest performance – TED’s “memorize every word” format scrambled exactly the parts of my brain that usually do the talking. Lesson learned: when the format fights the speaker, push back.

Science & Cocktails, Byens Lys, Christiania – 20 May 2014

A free-flowing evening on complex networks, measurements, and social systems. My favourite talk I have ever given. Event page at Science & Cocktails →.

Royal Academy on complex networks – 26 September 2013

Public lecture at Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab on complex networks – the surprising structure of the connections that hold the world together. (In Danish.)

Academic talks

Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (DIEP), Zoom colloquium – 29 November 2024

Colloquium on the life2vec line of work – modelling human lives as sequences of life events.

Network Science Institute, Northeastern (Zoom seminar) – 3 September 2024

Seminar on life2vec – what happens when you treat life trajectories as the sequence-of-tokens problem they kind of are.

Wednesdays@NICO, Northwestern – 26 January 2022

Talk at Northwestern’s Institute on Complex Systems on Fundamental Structures in Temporal Networks.

SICSS-HSE, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science – 7 July 2021

A second take on the Fundamental Structures material – modelling temporal communication networks and the dynamical processes that ride on top of them – given at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science hosted by the Higher School of Economics.

IC2S2 2021 keynote, ETH Zurich (virtual) – June 2021

My take on higher-order networks: what fundamental structures lurk in temporal networks once you stop pretending edges are independent. Watch on the ETH video portal → (no native embed available).

DTU Compute, inaugural lecture – 20 September 2019

My inaugural lecture as professor at DTU Compute.