Kristoffer Nielbo

I am professor and center director at Aarhus University. My research focuses on the cultural information space, emphasizing temporal dynamics and evolutionary patterns. From early in my career, I have worked extensively on modeling sequential data — particularly events, actions, and language — and applications of recurrent neural networks, which continue to inform my research. My work has been generously supported by grants from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science, UCLA Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (NSF), the Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium, the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration, the Velux Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs, the European Union (Horizon Europe), the Danish National Research Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen's Foundation, and the Augustinus Foundation.

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Advising

• Current and former PhD students: Rie Schmidt Eriksen (co-adv. Katrine Baunvig), Pascale Moreira (co-adv. Katrine Baunvig), Kirsten Vad (co-adv. Katrine Baunvig), Jan Tafdrup (co-adv. Katrine Baunvig), Jan Kostkan, Frida Hæstrup (co-adv. Søren Dinesen Østergaard), Ida Marie Schytt Lassen, Anders Astrup Christensen (20XX, co-adv. Sedat Gümüs), Eva Elisabeth Houth Vrangbæk (20XX), Anne Agersnap (20XX, co-adv. Kirstine Helboe Johansen, Uffe Schjødt), Martin Bernstorff (20XX, co-adv. Søren Dinesen Østergaard), Lasse Hansen (20XX, co-adv. Søren Dinesen Østergaard), Kenneth Enevoldsen (2024), Andreas Aalkjær Danielsen (20XX, co-adv. Søren Dinesen Østergaard, Morten Fenger).
• Current and former postdocs: Simon Aagaard Enni, Alie Lassche, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Yuri Bizzoni (2024).

Publications

Complete list of publications

• Nielbo, K. L. , Karsdorp, F., Wevers, M. , Lassche, A. , Baglini, R. B. , Kestemont, M., & Tahmasebi, N. (2024). Quantitative text analysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 4 (25), Article 25.
• Nielbo, K. L. , Enevoldsen, K. , Baglini, R. B. , Fano, E. , Roepstorff, A. , & Gao, J. (2023). Pandemic news information uncertainty: News dynamics mirror differential response strategies to COVID-19. PLOS One, 18 (1), Article e0278098.
• Nielbo, K. L., Hæstrup, F., Enevoldsen, K., Vahlstrup, P. B., Baglini, R. B., & Roepstorff, A. (2022). When No News is Bad News. News-based Change Detection During COVID-19. DH Benelux Journal, 4, 107-120.
• Nielbo, K. L. , Vahlstrup, P. B. , Bechmann, A. , & Gao, J. (2020). Trend reservoir detection: Minimal persistence and resonant behavior of trends in social media. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2723, 290-297.
• Nielbo, K. L., Baunvig, K. F., Liu, B., & Gao, J. (2019). A curious case of entropic decay: Persistent complexity in textual cultural heritage. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34 (3), 542-557.

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