I am a PhD student at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, in Frank Neffke's Transforming Economies group, working on large-scale digital traces of work and skills, with a focus on the software industry. I first came to CSH as a visiting student in 2025, writing my Master's thesis with Eddie Lee.

Previously I received my Master's in Logic and Computation and my Bachelor's in Computer Science from TU Wien, where I worked with Martin Nöllenburg on graph algorithms and network visualization. Alongside my doctoral studies I am pursuing a Master's in Epistemologies of Science and Technology at the University of Vienna.

I also run a photography business, and serve on the board of Club Alpbach Tirol, which runs a scholarship programme for the European Forum Alpbach.

Research

Connection or Coincidence? Analytical Null Models for Co-occurrence in Bipartite Multigraphs

Master's thesis, TU Wien, 2026

MySemCloud: Interactive Semantic Word Clouds

IEEE PacificVis, 2023·Paper·Demo

Visualizing Historical Opera Networks

Graph Drawing Contest, winning entry, 2022·Poster·Write-up

Engineering a Search-Tree Algorithm for Disjoint s-t Paths of Bounded Length

Bachelor's thesis, TU Wien, 2022·arXiv

Projects

Moment of Insight

Global indicators on an interactive map, 2024·Site

Photography

valentinaundmichael.com

Weddings, with my partner Valentina

business.mikhubphoto.at

Commercial work for businesses and organisations

mikhubphoto.at

Travel and street work