Ciao! I'm
Mauritz Niklas Cartier van Dissel
Welcome to my website! I'm Mauritz, a PhD candidate at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna, working with Prof. Fariba Karimi in the Network Inequality Lab. My research applies mathematics to the analysis of network data, with a particular focus on complex systems in computational social science.
Before joining CSH in April 2023, I earned my bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Trento, Italy. My master's thesis, in collaboration with the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, developed state-space models for online prediction of multivariate electricity loads.
You can reach me at cartiervandissel@csh.ac.at.
News
New Preprint! "Contact, conflict, or opportunity?" is now on arXiv
Our new paper studying how out-group exposure influences adolescents connection preferences in 228 Czech classrooms is now available. Check it out!
Finally a website! And going to NetSci 2026
After years of procrastination, I launched this website to catalogue and share my research and connect with others in the field. Check back here for updates on my latest work and news. On a completely unrelated note (:P) I will be coming to Boston for NetSci 2026, see you there!
Talk at the Washington Quantum Computing Meetup
Gave a talk on our work titled "A Payne–Whitham model of urban traffic networks with traffic-light dynamics and its application to signal optimisation." at the Washington Quantum Computing Meetup. You can find the video recording of the talk here.
"Ranks of Disparity" interactive launches
We released an interactive explainer for the hyperFA*IR fairness framework, plus press coverage in Der Standard and an amazing blog post by Reviewer Too.
Research visit to Brno, Czech Republic
I spent two weeks at SΛTIS Lab at Masaryk University in Brno collaborating with Tomáš Lintner on our project studying friendship and segregation in Czech school classrooms.
New paper on preference aggregation and social networks
"A simple preference aggregation rule explains how multidimensional identities shape social networks" is out, with Samuel Martin-Gutierrez and Fariba Karimi.
Radio interview on Radio Eins, Berlin
Discussed our research on intersectional inequalities in social networks on Die Profis, Radio Eins (RBB), Berlin.
"Intersectional inequalities in social ties" published
CSH news coverage: "Double Disadvantage Hurts More Than Twice as Much". The paper shows how social inequalities don't just add up — they compound.
IceLab seminar & camp at Umeå University
Gave a talk on hyperFA*IR — fairness in rankings through random sampling — as a visiting researcher in Umeå's IceLab. I then stayed for the IceLab camp — a really amazing experience, in which I met really cool people! More on this year's edition →
Presented hyperFA*IR at ACM FAccT in Athens
Really happy with how the talk went! I presented our latest work titled hyperFA*IR — a hypergeometric framework for detecting and enforcing fairness in rankings drawn from finite candidate pools — at ACM FAccT 2025. Watch the talk →
Publications
See the full list on Google Scholar.