2026 Thilo Gross: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	35	8920	8596	303	292	130	6107

Overview

Thilo Gross is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in several interconnected fields and topics.

The main fields of study for their work include:

Environmental Science
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

They have also published extensively in the following subfields:

Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Sociology and Political Science
Molecular Biology
Global and Planetary Change
Genetics

Key topics in their research cover a range of biological and ecological dynamics as well as theoretical frameworks, including:

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
Neural dynamics and brain function
Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

The scientist's impactful recent papers illustrate a focus on theoretical and computational approaches to understanding complex systems and ecological networks. Some of their recent publications include:

Adaptive dynamical networks, 2023, Physics Reports
Modern models of trophic meta-communities, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Diverse interactions and ecosystem engineering can stabilize community assembly, 2020, Nature Communications
Not One, but Many Critical States: A Dynamical Systems Perspective, 2021, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Estimation of functional diversity and species traits from ecological monitoring data, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their collaborative work involves frequent partnerships with other researchers, including:

Ashkaan K. Fahimipour
Jana C. Massing
Anne-Ly Jabusch
Fanqi Zeng
Helmut Hillebrand

Thilo Gross's publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Physics Reports

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book literature, including a publication with River Publishers eBooks titled Self-Organization in Continuous Adaptive Networks (2022).

Best Publications

Adaptive coevolutionary networks: a review

Thilo Gross;Bernd Blasius

1102
Citations
Epidemic dynamics on an adaptive network.

Thilo Gross;Carlos J. Dommar D’Lima;Bernd Blasius

1101
Citations
Self-organized criticality as a fundamental property of neural systems

Janina Hesse;Thilo Gross

513
Citations
Instabilities in spatially extended predator–prey systems: Spatio-temporal patterns in the neighborhood of Turing–Hopf bifurcations

Martin Baurmann;Thilo Gross;Ulrike Feudel

409
Citations
Structural kinetic modeling of metabolic networks

Ralf Steuer;Thilo Gross;Joachim Selbig;Bernd Blasius

337
Citations
Modeling complex systems with adaptive networks

Hiroki Sayama;Irene Pestov;Jeffrey Schmidt;Benjamin James Bush

220
Citations
Failure of adaptive self-organized criticality during epileptic seizure attacks.

Christian Meisel;Alexander Storch;Susanne Hallmeyer-Elgner;Ed Bullmore;Ed Bullmore

218
Citations
Adaptive Networks: Theory, Models and Applications

Thilo Gross;Hiroki Sayama

201
Citations
All Scale-free networks are sparse

Charo I. Del Genio;Thilo Gross;Kevin E. Bassler;Kevin E. Bassler

184
Citations
Adaptive self-organization in a realistic neural network model

Christian Meisel;Thilo Gross

183
Citations
Early Warning Signals for Critical Transitions: A Generalized Modeling Approach

Steven John Lade;Thilo Gross

150
Citations
Generalized models as a universal approach to the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems

Thilo Gross;Ulrike Feudel

149
Citations
Collapse of an ecological network in Ancient Egypt

Justin D Yeakel;Justin D Yeakel;Justin D Yeakel;Mathias M Pires;Lars Rudolf;Nathaniel J Dominy

142
Citations
Enrichment and foodchain stability: the impact of different forms of predator--prey interaction

Thilo Gross;Wolfgang Ebenhöh;Ulrike Feudel

119
Citations
Robust oscillations in SIS epidemics on adaptive networks: Coarse graining by automated moment closure

Thilo Gross;Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

117
Citations
From structure to dynamics of metabolic pathways

Ralf Steuer;Adriano Nunes Nesi;Alisdair R. Fernie;Thilo Gross

110
Citations
Moment-closure approximations for discrete adaptive networks

Guven Demirel;Federico Vazquez;Gesa A. Bohme;Thilo Gross

102
Citations
Adaptive-network models of swarm dynamics

Cristián Huepe;Gerd Zschaler;Anne-Ly Do;Thilo Gross

97
Citations
Analytical calculation of fragmentation transitions in adaptive networks.

Gesa A. Böhme;Thilo Gross

92
Citations
Long food chains are in general chaotic

Thilo Gross;Wolfgang Ebenhöh;Ulrike Feudel

83
Citations
Bifurcations and Chaos in the MAPK signaling cascade

Martin Zumsande;Thilo Gross

78
Citations
Identifying dynamical instabilities in supply networks using generalized modeling

Güven Demirel;Bart L. MacCarthy;Daniel Ritterskamp;Alan R. Champneys

75
Citations
How to predict community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity

Helge Aufderheide;Lars Rudolf;Thilo Gross;Kevin D. Lafferty;Kevin D. Lafferty

73
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin D. Lafferty United States Geological Survey

Ulf Dieckmann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Simon A. Levin Princeton University

Paulo R. Guimarães Universidade de São Paulo

Bart L. MacCarthy University of Nottingham

Ioannis G. Kevrekidis Johns Hopkins University

Stefano Boccaletti Institute for Complex Systems

Joachim Selbig Max Planck Society

Simon Alberti TU Dresden

Edward T. Bullmore King's College London

External Links

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