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...
I am a researcher interested in complex systems and complex networks. I am interested in interdisciplinary approaches and the development of new mathematical tools to answer social, biological and economic questions. My main research interests are the study of social media and their impact on society and the development of new methods to study networks and their dynamics.
I am an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Network Science at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning in the Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich and a member of the Digital Society Initiative.
You can find a list of my publications on Google Scholar and more information about me here.
Recent posts
New paper on Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections in Nature Human Behaviour
During the last two years we have been working with an large team of researchers on a follow up of my paper on fake news Twitter during the 2016 US president...
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...
New paper on the UK far-right in Telegram in Applied Network Science
Our new paper with Peter Grindrod about the Organization and evolution of the UK far-right network on Telegram has been published in Applied Network Science.
CSS Service Award for the Winter Workshop
Together with all the other organizers of the Winter Workshop on Complex Systems we received that Service Award of the Complex Systems Society during the Con...
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.
Member of the ACM Web Conference 2023 Program Committee
I am very glad to join the Program Committee of the ACM Web Conference 2023.
Opinion piece about the need for evidence-based regulation of social media platforms
Thanks to a collaboration with the Swiss Young Academy, I wrote an opinion piece about the need for evidence-based regulation of social media platforms that ...
Article in Science Advances Flow stability for dynamic community detection
I am very glad to announce that the novel framework for community detection in temporal networks I have been working on with Jean-Charles Delvenne and Renaud...
Two fully funded PhD positions at the University of Zurich
I am looking for two PhD students to work with me at the University of Zurich on developing new methods to investigate complex networks and on issues related...