Speakers

Isabel Cavalli is a PhD Student in Economics, enrolled in the international program between the Université Côte d’Azur (Nice) and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa). Previously, she graduated with honours in Comparative International Relations at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice after developing her MA Thesis in Bruxelles on the deficiencies of European economic integration. Her research interests focus on the determinants and effects of innovation, new technology and technological knowledge (such as patent policies, the value of data in the economy, and AI in healthcare) in the surrounding economic system through economic and empirical research and microeconometric evaluation. She serves as PhD Students Representative at GREDEG UMR 7321 and ED DESPEG 513. For the second consecutive year, she is also in charge of the course "Principles of Economics 1", part of the Bachelor’s in Economics and Management at the Université Côte d’Azur.

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Anna Gebhard is a PhD student in mathematics at the Institute of Mathematical Optimization at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. She works at the intersection of medicine and mathematics, using modeling, parameter estimation, simulation and optimal control to research treatment personalization. She received her Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Previously, she also received a B.Sc. in psychology from the Technical University of Braunschweig. Apart from her mathematical research, she is involved in various projects to make STEM fields more inclusive for women, especially those with care responsibilities.

When she’s not working in her main area of expertise, she likes to meddle with the one of her husband, Jan Schulz-Gebhard, leading to projects such as the one she is presenting in Vienna. Here, her interests lie in applying graph-theoretic methods to socioeconomic phenomena, ranging from inequality perceptions to granularity and production networks.

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Charlie Joyez is a tenured assistant professor in Economics at Université Côte d’Azur (Nice) and a member of GREDEG UMR 7321 laboratory, where he co-leads the research team CREAPODE around micro-dynamics of firms and individuals. He holds a PhD in international and organizational economics from Université Paris–Dauphine, and has since developed his research towards the use of network analysis in economics, particularly around the structure of multinational firms and the global value chains, and the mobility of workers. He also released several Stata packages to foster the use of network analysis in econometrics.

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Johannes Marx is Chair Professor of Political Theory and a Professor for Political Science at the University of Bamberg.  He analyzes normative and analytical questions in Political Theory. In his work, he closely links the study of political ideas with contemporary analyses of society, employing recent tools in theory formation, such as action and decision theory, game theory, and computer simulations. He is working on the emergence of collective belief formation, the evolution of interpersonal trust in societies, emergence and change of institutions, the quality and status of rational choice explanation, philosophy of the social sciences and economics, the value of market and democracy, and on the agency, rights and duties of animals, robots and men.

He is a member of an ANR-DFG funded, international research group of collective belief formation (ColAForm), of the Bamberg Centre for Innovative Applicatons of Computer Science (ZIAI), and of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS).

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Maximilian Noichl is a doctoral researcher at the Universities of Vienna and Bamberg, working at the borders of philosophy, computational social science and digital humanities – all about doing philosophy with computers! He has studied history and philosophy of science as well as psychology at the University of Vienna. His work is focused on the implementation of computational tools that aid in the investigation of philosophical questions. Here he is particularly interested in collective agency, group dynamics in the history of ideas, and the adoption and interdisciplinary transfer of computational modeling and visualization-practices in the sciences.
When Maximilian is not working, he plays with digital art, makes food, or does a little climbing. 

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Qasim Pasta is passionate about teaching computer science at the undergrad level and has more than 12 years of teaching experience. He has completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology in 2018. His research interest lies in the field of Network Science and Data Science, particularly in the areas of extraction, analysis, and visualization of complex networks. He is working on models for the generation of synthetic networks based on dynamics observed in real-world networks, while also enabling the embedding of ground-truth structures, such as community structures. He also works in the area of computational social science and studying the usage of technology to understand the underlying problems of society.

Prior to joining academia, Qasim has been part of the software development industry of Pakistan in different roles. He is passionate about software development and is part of different open-source project teams. In addition, Dr. Pasta is an active social worker and works with different Memon community organizations to promote education; especially for underprivileged students. 

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Eleonora Priori is a postdoctoral researcher in economics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. In her research, she focuses on agent-based models applied to various socioeconomic phenomena, including gender discrimination in academia, consumption emulation, and stock-flow consistent macroeconomic modeling. She received her PhD in economics within the Vilfredo Pareto program at the University of Turin, where she also received her two Master's degrees in economics and data science. Her Bachelor's degree at the University of Genoa was in business economics.

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Liane Rothenberger studied journalism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, with minors in Romance Studies and Musicology, and completed her diploma in 2005 with a thesis on the Verein der Ausländischen Presse (Foreign Press Association) in Germany. She then did a traineeship at the Laaber-Verlag publishing house near Regensburg. In 2008, she completed her doctorate at the KU and wrote a thesis on the program development of the German-French cultural TV channel "arte".

From 2008 to 2021, she worked at the Institute for Media and Communication Science at TU Ilmenau and qualified as a professor in 2018 with a monograph on terrorism as a form of communication. Since 2021, she holds the professorship of Media and the Public with specialization in migration. 

She has conducted research and delivered lectures abroad at JOMEC in Cardiff, UHA in Mulhouse, Université Lumière 2 in Lyon, and the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada. As a freelance journalist, she has written for Der Spiegel, among other publications.

Lasare Samartzidis is a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development in Dresden. He focuses on the interaction of the spatial and network dimensions of production. In his work, he applies tool from network theory to issues of those spatial production networks, especially in the fields of business cycle synchronization, ecological issues and European integration.  He obtained his Master's degree from CAU Kiel and his Bachelor's degree from the FSU Jena, both in economics. Apart from his interest in production networks, he also works on subjective well-being and applications of machine learning methods.

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Daniel is Assistant Professor for Computational Social Science in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He applies Computational Models in the field of Institutions, Inequalities, and Life Courses, including questions in Political Epistemology, Collective Behaviour and Economics. Furthermore, he evaluates these models from an analytical and Philosophy of Science perspective.

Daniel did his PhD at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bamberg. He holds an MSc in Social Research Methods from the University of Surrey, an MA in Ethics of Textual Cultures from The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and an MA in Political Science from the University of Bamberg. Daniel did his undergraduate studies in Philosophy & Economics at the University of Bayreuth.

In his free time, Daniel enjoys building (allegedly) non-scientific models out of LEGO and extensive political discussions with friends, where he fancies argumentative rigor.

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Jan Schulz-Gebhard recently submitted his PhD thesis in economics on aggregation with heterogeneous and interacting agents. In his work, he is interested in all things distribution and networks, including the impact of homophily on inequality perceptions, emulative consumption and network segregation as well as production networks and business cycle fluctuations. His idea of a good time together appears to include working on a common project in network theory which is why he already finished two papers with his wife Anna Gebhard. He received his Master’s in European Economic Studies from the University of Bamberg and his Bachelor’s in Philosophy & Economics from the University of Bayreuth. Since many years, he is involved in the movement for pluralism in economics, both locally in Bamberg as well as within the German Network for Pluralism in Economics. Apart from economics, he is interested in historical and current labour struggles and thus happy to be a part of NetSci 2023 and to explore the history of Red Vienna in his free time there.

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Jan was born and raised in the Black Forest, overlooking deep valleys and trees, enjoying the beautiful landscape year-round.

He received his undergrad in Economics with a minor in Political Science at the University of Mannheim. For one semester he attended Southern Utah University to gain his first international experience as a student. He completed master's coursework at Gothenburg University and graduated from the University of Bamberg.

He is currently wrapping up his dissertation work at the University of Utah. His research focuses on firms, firm behavior, and complex interactions. A special emphasis is on the market power and concentration of publicly listed firms in the US.

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