Reposted by Simon SygaDimitria Freitas @dimitriafreitas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026It was a great experience to present my paper, “The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development in Germany,” at the 2nd LSE Workshop for Early Career Women in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-2n... 151
Reposted by Simon SygaDimitria Freitas @dimitriafreitas.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I’m incredibly honored to have received the SOLE Poster Prize 🏆 for my paper: “The Effect of Public Sector Relocations on Regional Development in Germany“ at the 6th World Labour Conference in Toronto! #SOLE2025 #EconSky #LaborEconomics #RegionalEconomics #UrbanEconomics 1151
Simon Syga @sisyga.bsky.social · 25/02/20261/5 New paper out in EPJ Special Topics with Josué Manik Nava-Sedeño (UNAM) & Andreas Deutsch (TU Dresden)! We built a cellular automaton framework for modeling genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous cell populations. 🧵 120
Simon Syga @sisyga.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Just wrapped up two inspiring weeks in Florida for #MathOnco25 and the IMO Workshop at @moffittnews.bsky.social - made possible by a generous travel award from the organizers. Incredible science, great people, and a community that keeps pushing boundaries. 120
Simon Syga @sisyga.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Honoured to receive the 2024 Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award from @esmtbio.bsky.social for my PhD on tumour evolution. Looking forward to the #ECMTB2026 plenary in Graz. Huge thanks to mentors, collaborators & students at ZIH, CIDS and @tudresden.bsky.social. #MathBio #Mathonco 174
Reposted by Simon SygaGregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 20/06/2025People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel... 911237
Simon Syga @sisyga.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I'm super happy and honored to be nominated for the Deutscher Studienpreis (German Thesis Award) by @koerber-ip.bsky.social for my PhD thesis on mathematical modeling of the impact of tumor heterogeneity on cancer evolution! I'm looking forward to meeting the other nominees at the final in Berlin! 151
Reposted by Simon SygaKit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Today the Royal Society will meet to discuss “Fellows’ behaviour”. Without doubt the fellow they will primarily be discussing is Elon Musk. The behaviour may range from his public dissemination of unfounded conspiracy theories to his attacks on the science 🧵 1/38 25686237
Reposted by Simon SygaDimitria Freitas @dimitriafreitas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Can moving government jobs revitalize struggling regions? I explore this question in my new @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper, „The Potential of Public Employment Reallocation as a Place-Based Policy.“ 🧵(1/5) #EconSky #PlaceBasedPolicies #RegionalDevelopment 174
Reposted by Simon SygaNBER @nber.org · 08/02/2025Surveying the economics literature on capital relocations, purpose-built capitals, and public agency decentralization programs, synthesizing their effects on population, employment, and GDP, from Dimitria Freitas www.nber.org/papers/w33432 0104