2022
Doctoral defense
Kieran Mepham successfully defended his dissertation "Political Opinions and Offline Social Networks in a Swiss Student Community".
New doctoral student
Siyu Jiang, MSc in Psychology: Learning Sciences from LMU, joins as a doctoral student for a project on social networks and learning, supervised by Prof. Christoph Stadtfeld. Welcome to the SN-LAB!
Invited Talk
Invited talk «Quotebank: Studying Society through the Lens of Quotations», Prof. Robert West (Data Science Lab, EPFL), 2022-12-08, 12:30, ETH Zurich, room IFW A 36.
D-INFK Affiliation
The Department of Computer Science at ETH made Ulrik Brandes affiliated faculty. As a consequence, he will be able to supervise master and bachelor theses of students in computer science.
Visit Sevilla FC
Ulrik Brandes and Hadi Sotudeh visited the data department of Sevilla FC to get an insight into their various data analytics projects and to discuss potential research collaborations.
NWS 10(3) online
Cambridge University Press has published the September issue of Network Science.
SNSF Project Grant
The SN-LAB algos will be collaborating with the group of Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru at IIT Hyderabad to study homophily and the spread of disinformation in social networks. SNSF data portal.
Doctoral defense
Simon Päpcke successfully defended his dissertation "Novella Networks".
NWS 10(2) online
Cambridge University Press has published the June issue of Network Science.
Soccer Analytics
Ulrik Brandes talked about recent experiences with Soccer Analytics at the 39th Faculty Club Meeting, RWTH Aachen. (youtube)
NWS 10(1) online
Cambridge University Press has published the March issue of Network Science.
Doctoral defense
Julian Müller successfully defended his dissertation "A Micro-Foundation for Roles in Networks".
New postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Timon Elmer, psychologist and networks expert, joins the group of Prof. Stadtfeld after a postdoctoral fellowship in Groningen. Welcome back to the SN-LAB!
New doctoral student
Hadi Sotudeh, PDEng in Data Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology, joins as a doctoral student to work on soccer analytics, supervised by Prof. Ulrik Brandes. Welcome to the SN- LAB!
NWS 9(4) online
Cambridge University Press has published the December issue of Network Science.