2020
ASONAM 2020 Best Paper
Rouzbeh Hasheminezhad, along with co-authors Moses Boudourides (Northwestern University) and Ulrik Brandes, received the best paper award for Scale-free networks need not be fragile at the 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM).
ETH Medal for outstanding doctoral thesis
Dr. Timon Elmer wins the ETH silver medal award for his thesis "The intertwined dynamics of social network and mental health". Congratulations!
New doctoral student
Wei Zhang, MSc in Complex Systems from Beijing Normal University, joins as a doctoral student to work on dynamics in multilayer networks. Welcome to SN-LAB!
NWS 8(4) online
Cambridge University Press has published the December issue of NetworkScience.
New doctoral student
Hongjin Wu, MSc in Mathematical Sciences from Tongji University, Shanghai, joins SN-LAB as a doctoral student to work on epidemic spreading in networks. Welcome to the lab!
Special Issue: Ego Networks (2/2)
Volume 8, issue 3 of NETWORK SCIENCE is published on the Cambridge University Press website. It is the second of two special issues on Ego Networks.
ETH report on "Students under lockdown"
ETH News features the new article "Students under lockdown" of Elmer, Mepham and Stadtfeld. Their study investigates how students' mental health and social networks changed during the COVID-19 crisis.
Save the Date: IC2S2 2021
SN-LAB will host the 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2021) at ETH Zürich, 27-30 July 2021.
SN-LAB in the ETH News
ETH News reports about a recent study of the Social Networks Lab. The original article (published in Scientific Reports) investigates the importance of introduction events on the development of social relationships between students.
Special Issue Ego Networks
Volume 8, issue 2 of NETWORK SCIENCE is published on the Cambridge University Press website. It is the first of two special issues on Ego Networks.
Appointment Associate Professor
Christoph Stadtfeld is appointed as Associate Professor of Social Networks by the ETH Board. He joined the department D-GESS in 2014 as Assistant Professor. Congratulations!
Guest lecture Flaminio Squazzoni 5. May
Prof. Flaminio Squazzoni, professor of Sociology at the University of Milan, presents in the Behavioral Studies Colloquium. The talk discusses potential biases against manuscripts by women in the peer review process.
New doctoral student
Annina Stahl joins the SNF-funded project Relating the Unread as a doctoral student supervised by Prof. Ulrik Brandes. Welcome to the Lab!
New paper in Network Science
Marion Hoffman and other lab members propose a new model for the dynamics of face-to-face interactions in social groups.