Our PhD graduates

Our PhD graduates
We are proud of our many wonderful PhD graduates who are working in many places within academia and beyond. Here are the most recent ones.

• Hanlin Sun (graduated 2023)
  Thesis: Dynamic processes on networks and higher-order structures
  Supervisor: Ginestra Bianconi
• Lucille Calmon (graduated 2023)
  Thesis: Modelling and Processing the Dynamics of Topological Signals with the Dirac Operator
  Supervisor: Ginestra Bianconi
  Currently: Postdoc in network epidemiology at INSERM
  
• Marius Moeller (graduated 2023)
  Thesis: Dynamics of Random Mutations
  Supervisor: Weini Huang
  
  
• Magnus Haughey (graduated 2022)
  Thesis: Reconstructing somatic evolutionary dynamics in solid human tissues using spatial genomic data
  Supervisor: Weini Huang
  Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL
  
  
• Sandro Ferreira-Sousa (graduated 2022)
  Thesis: Quantifying spatial heterogeneity and urban segregation on networks through diffusion
  Supervisor: Vincenzo Nicosia
  Currently: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Networks, Data and Society Research Group, at ITU Copenhagen
  
  
• Ye Sun (graduated 2022)
  Thesis: The Evolution of Knowledge Sharing, Interdisciplinary Research and Funding in Modern Science
  Supervisor: Vito Latora
• Daniele Petrone (graduated 2021)
  Thesis: Artificial intelligence and network theory applied to financial systemic risk management
  Supervisor: Vito Latora
• Andrea Santoro (graduated 2021)
  Thesis: Optimisation and information-theoretic principles in multiplex networks
  Supervisor: Vincenzo Nicosia
  Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Bioengineering at EPFL, Geneva

• Iacopo Iacopini (graduated 2020)
  Thesis: Modelling the social dynamics of contagion and discovery using dynamical processes on complex networks
  Supervisor: Vito Latora
  Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University

• Ryan Flanagan (graduated 2020)
  Thesis: Network Theory Approaches for the Analysis of Ordered Data
  Supervisor: Lucas Lacasa

• Own Courtney (graduated 2019)
  Thesis: Statistical Mechanics of Simplicial Complexes
  Supervisor: Ginestra Bianconi
  Currently: Data Scientist at the Financial Conduct Authority

• Oliver Williams (graduated 2019)
  Thesis: Temporal networks and the effects of memory
  Supervisor: Vito Latora
  Currently: Financial Engineer at ALPIMA Ltd

• Valerio Ciotti (graduated 2017)
  Thesis: Positive and negative connections and homophily in complex networks
  Supervisor: Vito Latora and Pietro Panzarasa

• Jacopo Iacovacci (graduated 2017)
  Thesis: Motif formation and emergence of mesoscopic structure in complex networks
  Supervisor: Lucas Lacasa and Ginestra Bianconi

• Federico Battiston (graduated 2017)
  Thesis: The structure and dynamics of multiplex networks
  Supervisor: Vito Latora
  Currently: Assistant Professor in Network Science, Central European University

• Moreno Bonaventura (graduated 2017)
  Thesis: Shortest paths to success: Network indicators of performance in innovation ecosystems
  Supervisor: Vito Latora
  Currently: Machine Learning Engineer at InReach Ventures