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Invited talk
Invited talk “Inequality by design: Music streaming taxonomies as ruinous infrastructure” by Raquel Campos Valverde (University of Leeds), 2025-03-11, 10:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.
New doctoral student
Tianze Zhang, MSc in Computational Social Science, joins as a doctoral student for a project on Social Networks and Cultural Consumption in the Digital Age, supervised by Prof. Christoph Stadtfeld. Welcome to the SN-LAB!
Invited talk
Invited talk “Humans and Recommender Systems: Towards a Mutual Understanding” by Marta Moscati (Johannes Kepler University Linz), 2024-12-03, 10:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.
Doctoral defense
Alvaro Uzaheta Berdugo successfully defended his dissertation Modeling Heterogeneity in the Dynamics of Relational Events: Extensions of the Dynamic Network Actor Models
New doctoral student
María Eugenia Gil Pallares, MSc in Statistics, joins as a doctoral student for a project on network statistics, supervised by Prof. Christoph Stadtfeld. Welcome to the SN-LAB!
Doctoral defense
Annina Stahl successfully defended her dissertation Positioning Texts in the “Great Unread”.
Doctoral defense
Meher Pindiprolu successfully defended his dissertation Influence Processes on Networks.
New doctoral student
Hugo Fabrègues, MSc in Applied Mathematics, joins as a doctoral student for a project on soccer analytics, supervised by Prof. Ulrik Brandes. Welcome to the SN-LAB!
Doctoral defense
Gordana Marmulla successfully defended her dissertation Social Influence as a Base for Centrality in Directed Networks.
Doctoral defense
Wei Zhang successfully defended her dissertation Game Dynamics on Networks: Exploring Behaviour Evolution with Multi-type Interactions.
Simmel Award

Ulrik Brandes received the 2024 Georg Simmel Award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), their lifetime achievement award for major contributions to the study of social networks.
Sunbelt 2024
The SN-LAB is present at this year's Sunbelt conference in Edinburgh with eight presentations. Among those is Ulrik Brandes' Simmel Award lecture on Friday 28 June, 4.20 pm CET (watch here!)
Invited Talk
Invited talk "Network reconstruction for the masses" by Tiago de Paula Peixoto (Central European University Vienna), 2024-05-16, 13:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.
Invited Talk
Invited talk "The Many Mysterious Lives of Graph Fibrations (and Their Fabulous Applications to Computer Science and Beyond)" by Paolo Boldi (University of Milan), 2024-05-22, 13:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.
Invited Talk

Invited talk "Studying Model Transfer in Science" by Catherine Herfeld (Leibniz University Hannover), 2023-12-13, 13:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.
Invited Talk

Invited talk "Alter Composition with Overlapping Group Memberships" by Prof. Martin Everett (University of Manchester), 2023-10-31, 12:15, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.
Project report
New book showcasing projects from a funding program of VolkswagenStiftung, including algo@snlab's Reading at Scale in collaboration with LitLab at TU Darmstadt.
Soccer Analytics Challenge
SN-LAB and the KNIME Analytics Platform announce the launch of a soccer analytics challenge for students at ETH. Kick-off workshop with public lectures by experts on October 16, 16:15, in HG E 3.
Doctoral defense

Seyedrouzbeh Hasheminezhad successfully defended his dissertation Robustness of Scale-Free Networks.
Test-of-Time Award
Ulrik Brandes, Marco Gaertler and Dorothea Wagner received the ESA Test-of-Time Award for their 2003 contribution Experiments on Graph Clustering Algorithms.