Team
HEAD OF UNIT
Riccardo Gallotti
email: rgallotti@fbk.eu
RESEARCHERS
Lucila Alvarez-Zuzek
Postdoctoral Researcher
Interdisciplinary physicist focused on mathematical models to study human social behaviour using network science, statistical physics, and computer science tools. PhD at National University of Mar del Plata (AR), 2018. Currently, her research is focused on Cooperative AI frameworks and their application to complex systems.
Andrea Guizzo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Interdisciplinary physicist on complex systems. PhD at University of Parma (IT), 2023. I focused on mathematical models to study urban mobility using network science, stochastic processes and computer science tools. Currently, he is involved in the PNRR HPC National Center Spoke 9 "Digital Society & Smart Cities".
Kaveh Kadkhoda
Postdoctoral Researcher
My research analyzes and models social media information and misinformation to improve well-being, and I am a member of the AI4TRUST project, where I collaborate with over 50 researchers across Europe.
Thomas Louf
Postdoctoral Researcher
Interdisciplinary physicist, somewhere in between complexity science and computational social science. In other words, I like to use simple models to uncover mechanisms behind the patterns I observe in social data. Got my PhD from the IFISC (Spain) in 2023.
Anees Baqir
Postdoctoral Researcher
Interdisciplinary computer scientist with bias towards computational social science. I try to use network science and computational methods to study misinformation and polarization dynamics on social media platforms. I did my PhD from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2024).
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS
Oriol Artime
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Barcelona
Physicist and complex system scientist. PhD at IFISC (UIB-CSIC, ES), 2020. I use tools from network theory, statistical physics and stochastic processes to better understand and characterize complex systems. Always ready for innovative and interdisciplinary projects.
Valeria Mazzeo
Independent Researcher
Physicist specializing in Complex Systems and Network Science, particularly applied to socio-economic systems and social engineering. Completed a PhD at the University of Catania (Italy) in 2022. Currently, her research is focused on studying the diffusion of false information and the activities of bad actors using complex network analysis, agent-based models, natural language processing, and machine learning.
PHD STUDENTS
Alberto Amaduzzi
PhD in Physics, UniBO
Physicist by education, my research focus on Urban mobility. I am specializing in data analysis while preserving a fondness on the theoretical aspects of the problem I face.
Anna Bertani
PhD in Information Engineering and Computer Science, UniTN
Graduated in Data Science. I am interested in analysing social dynamics through data and network science. I am working on misinformation, political polarisation and collective attention in online social systems.
Veronica Orsanigo
PhD student in Information Engineering and Computer Science, UniTN
I am interested in analyzing cultural and social dynamics by exploring the overlap between network science and Natural Language Processing.
Ulysse Marquis
PhD in Maths, UniTN
Currently proceeding with my final project in CHuB on the study of human mobility networks. Broadly, interested in problem solving, from the creation of the model to the computation of the solution.
VISITING STUDENTS
Antoine Houssard
Visiting PhD
PhD candidate at Center for Internet and Society (CNRS, FR). I am interested in computational social sciences and more specifically in platform dynamic and online behaviour.
Luigi Arminio
Visiting PhD
PhD Candidate in Computational Communication Studies at the IT University of Copenhagen. Holds a BA in Sociology and an MSc in Data Science. His research focuses on understanding social media's polarization and communication dynamics using Network Science and NLP.
Elisabeth Stockinger
Visiting PhD, ETH Zürich (CH)
I investigate tools for fairer information flows online. My experience includes autonomous systems and artificial intelligence, data science and software engineering as well as media technology and design.
Giacomo Barzon
PhD in Physics, UniPD
MSc in Physics of Data at the University of Padova, currently pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience at the Padova Neuroscience Center. My main interests regard the study of brain criticality and controllability.
Yasmine Houri
Visiting PhD
PhD candidate in Sociology at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CNRS (France). I study the social processes underpinning inaccurate or harmful information sharing on social media, using a range of computational tools in network and data science.
Beatriz Arregui
Visiting PhD, IFISC (ES)
Graduated in Physics. I am interested in understanding the emergence of social phenomena from the network science and complex systems perspective. I study how structural properties of networks influence the information processing in social and ecological systems, with a particular focus in epidemic spreading.
MASTER'S STUDENTS & INTERNS
Aurora Vindimian
MSc in Mathematics, UniTN
Master student of Mathematics, focusing on applied topics, data analysis and especially social network science.
Laura Bisoffi
MSc in Mathematics, UniTN
With a mathematical background and a focus on data science, I'm exploring social interactions and voting models in network science. My goal is to understand polarization and misinformation through analysis and quantitative methods.
David Alejandro Altamirano
MSc in Physics of Data, UniPD
Physicist with a hard computational background. I'm a second-year master student at University of Padova and currently in CHuB I'm studying urban mobility and congestion reduction using evolutionary game theory.
Alessio Pitteri
MSc in Physics of Data, UniPD
Interested in Complex Systems and Neural Networks. I'm studying how to simulate and control the dynamics of interacting systems that exhibit self-organization using Reinforcement Learning.
FORMER MEMBERS