Simon David Lindner

My research focuses on complex systems and network science applied to health and language. I have established data-driven frameworks for epidemiology and healthcare analytics, ranging from wastewater-based forecasting to mapping gender-specific multimorbidity networks.

Currently, I am expanding these methods to natural language processing by analyzing the semantic topology of legal texts at the SUSTech-ETH Risks-X Institute. This expertise underpins my proposed research in computational psychiatry, where I aim to track temporal network dynamics in psychotherapy to predict patient outcomes and visualize therapeutic change.

I completed my PhD in Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna, where I worked on data-driven approaches to healthcare analytics and wastewater-based epidemiology. As a member of Austria’s COVID-19 Forecasting Committee, I developed forecasts that informed national public health decisions.

news

May 12, 2026	New blog post: built an interactive Monte Carlo animation for Jan Korbel et al.’s spin-glass group formation model (PRL 2023), on which I’m a co-author — drag the temperature slider to watch opinion clusters form and dissolve.
Apr 21, 2026	New preprint out: Care Trajectories Are Linked to Mental Health and Mortality in Cancer Patients — we use Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering to analyze longitudinal care patterns in over 8,000 haematologic malignancy patients.
Apr 09, 2026	Successfully defended my PhD thesis — Statistical network approach to identify gender-related factors and interactions in chronic diseases — at the Medical University of Vienna. 🎓
Feb 05, 2026	Launched my new personal website! Excited to share my research here.

latest posts

May 12, 2026	How opinions drive the formation of social groups
Mar 16, 2026	Revisiting gender, socioeconomics, and hypertension comorbidities

selected publications

arXiv

Care Trajectories Are Linked to Mental Health and Mortality in Cancer Patients

Simon David Lindner and others

arXiv preprint, Apr 2026

DOI Bib

@article{lindner2026caretrajectories,
  title = {Care Trajectories Are Linked to Mental Health and Mortality in Cancer Patients},
  author = {Lindner, Simon David and others},
  journal = {arXiv preprint},
  year = {2026},
  month = apr,
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2604.18431},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18431},
}

Heliyon

Estimating unreported SARS-CoV-2 infections in Austria

Simon David Lindner and others

Heliyon, Aug 2025

DOI Bib

@article{lindner2025unreported,
  title = {Estimating unreported SARS-CoV-2 infections in Austria},
  author = {Lindner, Simon David and others},
  journal = {Heliyon},
  year = {2025},
  month = aug,
  doi = {10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43748},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43748},
}

Sci Rep

A comparison of synthetic data generation and federated analysis for enabling international evaluations of cardiovascular health

Simon David Lindner and others

Scientific Reports, Jul 2023

DOI Bib

@article{lindner2023synthetic,
  title = {A comparison of synthetic data generation and federated analysis for enabling international evaluations of cardiovascular health},
  author = {Lindner, Simon David and others},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  year = {2023},
  month = jul,
  doi = {10.1038/s41598-023-38457-3},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38457-3},
}

Phys Rev Lett

Homophily-based social group formation in a spin-glass self-assembly framework

Jan Korbel, Simon David Lindner, and others

Physical Review Letters, Jan 2023

DOI Bib

@article{prl2023homophily,
  title = {Homophily-based social group formation in a spin-glass self-assembly framework},
  author = {Korbel, Jan and Lindner, Simon David and others},
  journal = {Physical Review Letters},
  volume = {130},
  pages = {057401},
  year = {2023},
  month = jan,
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.057401},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.057401},
}

Nat Commun

Thermodynamics of structure-forming systems

Jan Korbel, Simon David Lindner, and others

Nature Communications, Feb 2021

DOI Bib

@article{lindner2021thermodynamics,
  title = {Thermodynamics of structure-forming systems},
  author = {Korbel, Jan and Lindner, Simon David and others},
  journal = {Nature Communications},
  year = {2021},
  month = feb,
  doi = {10.1038/s41467-021-21272-7},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21272-7},
}