Current Activities
Professor of Econophysics and Social Physics
Complex Systems Institute CSI
Department of Economics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ghent University, Belgium
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Luis at Nydala Lake, Umeå, Sweden, at 1pm in January 2008
Education and Past Work
2019: Fellow of the United Kingdom Higher Education Academy
2019: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Greenwich, UK
2018 - 2019: Lecturer in Network Science, Business School, University of Greenwich, UK
2017 - 2018: Researcher, Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden
2013 - 2017: Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2013 - 2016: FNRS Research Fellow, Mathematics, University of Namur, Belgium
2011 - 2013: FSR Research Fellow Academie universitaire Louvain & EU Marie Curie Action, Engineering Mathematics, University of Louvain, Belgium
2011: PhD Theoretical Physics, Umeå University, Sweden
2007: Master Applied Physics (Computational Physics), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Scholarship Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)2005: Bachelor Physics (minor in Informatics), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Main Research Interests
My research involves diverse topics and methodologies with a focus on complex systems and network science. I mostly
work with methods and modelling, and frequently in collaboration with applied researchers, particularly medical doctors (public health),
computer scientists (information visualisation and machine learning), sociologists (social networks, sampling hard-to-reach populations),
and mathematicians (mathematical epidemiology, data analytics).
Main research topics:
- Computational modelling of dynamic processes on networks, e.g. epidemics, random walks, opinions
- Algorithms for network data analytics
- Agent-based modelling
- Modelling of temporal or time-varying networks
- Data analytics using networks, statistics, time series, (some) machine learning
- Visualisation of temporal or time-varying networks
- Sampling of hard-to-reach populations, both methods and applications (data collection)
- Focus on social, economic and health systems, e.g. sexual and social (communication and contact networks) Human/animal networks.
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Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil