Research & Innovation

Themes

These are some broad and specific themes of interest. These include topics from previously completed works and also from ongoing works or future collaborations.

SOCIAL CONTEXTS

Influence in Networked Contexts
- Digital Platforms
- Large Scale Networks
- Opinions, Health, Education, Innovation
News Media & Communication
- Topic Coverage & Framing
- Democracy & Political Roles
- Public Opinion, Polarization
Social Media & Information Spread
- Fake Information (Veracity), Credibility
- Echo Chambers & Polarization

BUSINESS CONTEXTS

Consumer Behaviour
- Product Diffusion
- Persuasive Communication
- Emotions
Organizational Behaviour
- Community Analysis
- Growth of Firms
- Team Performance
Supply Chain Networks & Decisions
- Resilience & Risk Analysis
- Homophily in Decisions

INTERDISCIPLINARY TOPICS

Climate Change
- Consumer Behaviour (Consumerism)
- Regulations & Energy Innovations
Health & Epidemics
Agriculture
Education
Innovation
Markets
- Risk
- Economic & Financial Impacts
- Financial Networks

A common thread is the interest to investigate individual, group, and collective behaviour in various contexts (social, business, economic) with scope for interdisciplinary insights and methods. Another common thread is the interest to investigate behaviour using (social) networks and communications.

Previous & Ongoing Work

Completed and ongoing projects, and funded projects can be found here, including commentaries and references to data sets (wherever possible).

Published articles and completed work

Working papers, and ongoing projects

Co-authors from all work

Acknowledgments

Valuable discussions and feedback at various events and workshops. Funding from institutions for various activities.

Funding

Scholarships and funding for educational and research activities from
- IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy), 2016-2020
- Toulouse School of Economics (France), 2015-2016
- National Institute of Science Education and Research (India), 2009-2014

Select Conferences & Events

International Conference on Computational Social Science (Amsterdam 2019)

European Conference on Social Networks (Zurich 2019)

International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (Cambridge, UK 2018)

Various conferences and seminars, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, 2016-2019)

PhD Workshop, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, 2019)