Behave Lab welcomes Vieri Pistocchi, a new post-doctoral researcher, who will be working on the NetHealth project, a study of networks as determinants of health inequalities between socio-economic, geographic, and migration-status groups in Lombardy, funded by Fondazione Cariplo. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Trento (Italy) and an expert in social [...]
Behave Lab welcomes Minsu Jang, a post-doctoral researcher at University of Milano-Bicocca, who will be working on the ConsNet project, a study of conspiracy beliefs, their social network determinants (online and offline), and their impacts on health, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN). He holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh [...]
Behave Lab welcomes Ayan-Yue Gupta, a new post-doctoral researcher, who will be working on the ConsNet project, a study of conspiracy beliefs, their social network determinants (online and offline), and their impacts on health, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN). He holds a PhD from the University of Bristol (UK) and is [...]
Prof. Joshua M. Epstein (New York University, New York, USA) has been granted an international visiting professor award here at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan thanks to the financial support of the "Departments of Excellence" grant. He will visit our department on May 2024 to give a series [...]
Hybrid workshop on "Agent-based models of social networks", Department of Social & Political Sciences, Seminar room, Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan, 22-23 April 2024 Organised by the Computational Models and Designs Hub, and funded by the Department of Social & Political Science of the University of Milan under the "Departments of Excellence" MIUR grant. This [...]
On 3 February 2024, at the University of Cagliari, Italy, Elena De Gioannis, postdoc in our team, has been granted the 2024 young scholar's best paper award at the SISEC (Italian Association of Economic Sociology) 2024 conference. The award was assigned for the article entitled "Gender bias in the classroom: A network study on self [...]
We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow to join the ConsNet project’s team at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Bicocca) and the University of Milan (Unimi) in Milano, Italy. Apply here (institutional link to call here). See application instructions here. Application deadline: January 15, 2024. Shortlisted candidates will meet online with the project team on January 29, 2024. The postdoc will join [...]
Join our team as a PhD student in 2023-2027! There is an incoming call within the NASP programme for two fully funded, 4 years scholarships for students who want to pursue computational social science projects. The scholarships are co-funded by CNR-IRPPS (Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, CNR, Rome) and CNR-ISTC (Institute for [...]
Behave welcomes Marco Venturini, a new PhD student, who is working on a project that aims to examine the behavioural and structural properties of cryptocurrency markets by integrating social network analysis and agent-based modelling. More info on Marco here.
We are happy to announce that the call for applications to the Behave Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling is now open! The school will take place at the University of Brescia, Italy,on 11-22 September 2023 in a hybrid setting with the usual format: one intro week + one advanced week. Info here. Join our Faculty [...]
