News

2024

Back to top ↑

2023

DIZH Funding

I very happy to annouce that our project “ClarifAI: Making the Unseen Seen with AI-assisted Propaganda Detection and Fact-Checking” has received funding from...

Two talks at NetSciX

I am happy to anounce that we will have two talks that the 2024 NetSciX conference in Venice, Italy, in January.

Portrait by the Swiss Young Academy

You can find my portrait done by the Swiss Young Academy here. I talked about my journey in academia, my research and my activities as the Swiss Young Academy.

New PhD Student

I am very happy to welcome Yas Asgari as a new PhD student in my research group at the University of Zurich. Yas was awarded a full scholarship from the Digi...

Back to top ↑

2022

Keynote at CompleNet 2023

I am thrilled to share the news that I have been invited as a Keynote speaker to the 14th International Conference on ​Complex Networks (CompleNet) in Aveiro...

Two new PhD students

I am very happy to welcome Samuel Koovely and Dorian Quelle as two new PhD students in my research group at the University of Zurich.

Back to top ↑

2021

Talk at CCS 2021

I will be giving a talk at the Conference on Complex Systems 2021 online on October 26th 2021.

Talk at Complex Networks 2021

I will be giving a talk at the 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications about my work with Peter Grindrod on the structure an...

Talk at PCNets @ Networks 2021

I will be giving a talk at the Political Communication Networks satellite of the Joint Sunbelt and NetSci conference Networks 2021 on June 24th, 2021.

Talk at ComNets @ Networks 2021

I am very happy to announce that I will be giving a talk at the Communities in Networks satellite of the Joint Sunbelt and NetSci conference Networks 2021 on...

Talk at CompleNet 2021

I am very happy to announce that I will be giving a plenary talk at the CompleNet 2021 conference that will take place online from May 24th to May 26th.

Online talks

I will have the pleasure to give a series of invited talks in the next months at the Oxford-Warwick-Edinburgh Network Science Workshop (2021/2/15), the North...

Back to top ↑

2020

Talks at NetSci2020

I will have the pleasure to give two talks at the Network Science conference NetSci2020 which will be online this year.

ERCIM News on Anomaly Detection

Our work, with Leonardo Gutiérrez-Gómez and Jean-Charles Delvenne, on anomaly detection in networks was featured in the ERCIM News journal special issue on S...

FNRS Chargé de recherche

I am very happy to announce that I was awarded a FNRS (Belgian Science Foundation) Chargé de recherche fellowship with UCLouvain as a host institute.

Election to the Swiss Young Academy

I am extremely happy to have been elected to the Swiss Young Academy as one of the first 29 members. I am looking forward to working with other members in in...

Back to top ↑

2019

Back to top ↑

2018

Talk at the CCS in Thessaloniki

I will give a presentation at the Conference on Complex Systems in Thessaloniki, Greece on Tuesday (Sep. 25th, 2018) on the Spreading and influence of misinf...

Talk at the ICCS in Cambridge USA

I will give a presentation at the International Conference on Complex Systems in Cambridge, MA, USA on Tuesday (July 24th, 2018) on the Spreading and influen...

Physics World News

My work on the influence of fake news during the 2016 US presidential elections in Twitter is featured in the journal Physics World (2018 Phys. World 31 (5)...

Back to top ↑

2017

Back to top ↑

2016

Finalist EPFL doctorate Award 2016

I am a finalist of the EPFL doctorate Award 2016 and was awarded a special distinction form the Jury for my Thesis on Suprathermal ion transport in turbulent...

SNSF Fellowship

I was awarded an Early Postdoc Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of information diffusion in social networks with Pro...

Back to top ↑

2015

Diffusion in Turbulent Plasmas

I earned my PhD in physics intituled “Suprathermal ion transport in turbulent magnetized plasmas” from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). M...

Back to top ↑