Meet Professor Alexander Gnedin and Professor Ginestra Bianconi
Dr Ginestra Bianconi is a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Currently, she is also Chief Editor of JPhys Complexity, Editor of PloSOne, and Scientific Reports, and she is Associate Editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
Her research activity on Statistical Mechanics and Network Science includes Network Theory and its interdisciplinary applications. She has formulated the Bianconi-Barabasi model that displays the Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. She has worked in network entropy and network ensembles and on dynamical processes on networks.
More recently her research has focused on generalised network structures including multilayer networks and simplicial complexes. Professor Bianconi said: “In my research, I investigate the foundations of network science using statistical mechanics, topology and dynamical systems. I develop theories that relate networks and complex systems to other fields in mathematics and physics while proving themselves useful to help interpret and understand the world around us.”
Her Network Science contributions have led to her being elected as a Fellow of the Network Science Society, joining a list of only 14 existing fellows, including high profile network scientists Steven Strogatz, Mark E. J Newman and Yoshiki Kuramoto. She is also the author of the book Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function by Oxford University Press.
Within the MSc Mathematics programme, Dr Bianconi teaches the compulsory module Research Methods in Mathematical Sciences.