Team

Current team members

Postdoctoral researchers

• Ye Sun
  She joined the team in 2021 from Queen Mary University of London to work on developing novel indicators of scientific impact
  Funding: Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant "Leveraging insights from sports analytics to quantify academic impact" (2021-2023; PI: Giacomo Livan)

PhD candidates

• Cara Lynch (2021)
  Cara's PhD seeks to develop agent-based models of opinion dynamics

• Diana Riazi (2021)
  Diana's PhD seeks to develop agent-based models of opinion dynamics

• Mingtang Li (2020)
  Mingtang's PhD is about quantifying the relationship between innovation, success, and rent-seeking in academic research

Past team members

Postdoctoral researchers

• Weihua Li (2017-2020)
  Weihua joined the team in 2017 from Beihang University and Ohio State University to work on data-driven models of scientific impact and reputation in online platforms
  Funding: EPSRC Early Career Fellowship "Reputation, Trust, and Privacy in the Sharing Economy: A Network Science Approach" (2016-2021, PI: Giacomo Livan)

• Mircea Zloteanu (2017-2018)
  Mircea joined the team in 2017 after obtaining a PhD in Experimental Psychology from UCL to develop an experimental framework to identify the determinants of user reputation in online platforms.
  Funding: EPSRC Early Career Fellowship "Reputation, Trust, and Privacy in the Sharing Economy: A Network Science Approach" (2016-2021, PI: Giacomo Livan)

PhDs

• Sonja Tilly (2019-2022)
  Sonja's PhD leveraged machine learning and network analytics to forecast macroeconomic indicators

• Samuel Stern (2018-2021)
  Samuel's PhD developed a data-driven framework to quantify agenda-setting in media and quantitative models of opinion dynamics

• Riccardo Marcaccioli (2017-2020)
  Riccardo's PhD developed a series of null models to disentangle signal from noise in complex interacting systems