Tutorial Workshop on “Agentizing Computational Models”, by Francesco Renzini and Flaminio Squazzoni, Computational Social Science Italy Conference, University of Trento, 15 January 2025

By |2024-11-12T15:39:15+00:00November 12th, 2024|

Tutorial Workshop on "‘Agentizing’ Computational Models", by Francesco Renzini & Flaminio Squazzoni, Computational Social Science Italy Conference, Department of Sociology & Social Research Socia, University of Trento, Italy, Wednesday 15 January 2025 Agent-based modelling (ABM) is a computational method for understanding how social dynamics emerge from heterogeneous agent interaction. ABM allows researchers to study otherwise [...]

Behave Lab welcomes Vieri Pistocchi, a new post-doc!

By |2024-07-11T17:40:37+00:00July 11th, 2024|

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!

By |2024-07-10T12:19:08+00:00July 10th, 2024|

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-doc!

By |2024-07-08T19:01:04+00:00July 8th, 2024|

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 [...]

Joshua Epstein visiting professor at BehaveLab in May 2024

By |2024-05-15T21:04:39+00:00April 28th, 2024|

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”, 22-23 April 2024

By |2024-04-23T16:24:34+00:00March 20th, 2024|

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 [...]

Elena De Gioannis winner of the SISEC Conference best paper award 2024!

By |2024-02-04T11:13:15+00:00February 4th, 2024|

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 [...]

Postdoc fellowship on Agent-Based Modelling of Social Networks!

By |2023-12-21T15:27:41+00:00December 21st, 2023|

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 [...]