Associate prof of sociology at @LaStatale @DipartimentoSPS & @BehaveLab_unimi, previously at @UF • Social networks, migration, health, data science, #rstats

Joined July 2010
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Out now -- Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation: New developments and challenges, with @BasakBilecen & @miranda_lubbers 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Happy to see this new @LaStatale #Master programme on #computational social and political science, and I can't wait to start working with the faculty, including @aruggeri_eu @Curini @raffaelevacca @ElenaDeGioannis and many others, and to meet the new students!
Join our new Master's programme in #Computational Social and Political Science at @LaStatale University of Milan to learn how to appy #quantitative computational methods to identify causal patterns in social and political #behaviour and #dynamics! We start in Sept 2025!
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@raffaelevacca introduces @gabrielhancean and his @4PCAN_Project on social determinants of #cancer with #dynamic #networks at a @nasp_school seminar @LaStatale!
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Eight hands-on workshops with @LaStatale @nasp_school and @BehaveLab_unimi 👉 raffaelevacca.com/doing-css/
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Was a pleasure hosting a special issue on social networks and collaborating with wonderful guest-editors @BasakBilecen @miranda_lubbers @raffaelevacca 👇
Out now -- Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation: New developments and challenges, with @BasakBilecen & @miranda_lubbers 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Out now -- Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation: New developments and challenges, with @BasakBilecen & @miranda_lubbers 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Check out the whole special issue on @IntMig_Journal, edited by @AysenUstubici, contributions by @MFraudatario @rkccases @molinajlmg @BasHofstra @adangeloUK @dorottya_hoor @Elisabel76 & others
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Our @LaStatale #BehaveLab team has a multi-session track on #Experimental #Computational #Network co-chaired by @ElenaDeGioannis @FrancescoRenz27 & @federico_fb at #SISEC25 conference in @unipv Pavia!
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We are about to announce the launch of a new Master's Degree in #Computational Social and Political Science at @LaStatale in Milan, starting in September 25. Please share this info and my contact to any student potentially interested! More soon!
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Impressed by the *Symposium on Empirically-calibrated Agent-based Models for Mechanism-based Research* organized by @mrnkzr @Lucas_sage1 @selcanmutgan @arvidmartin at the Toulouse School of Economics 👏👏 I am honored to be part of it & looking forward to it 🙏
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Two wonderful days last week on the beautiful University of Bucharest campus for the 2024 SSR International Conference. Thank you @gabrielhancean and SSR organizing committee for inviting me.
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@federico_fb @FrancescoRenz27 and I have organized a session at the 2025 @sisecit Conference. If you're into experimental design, network dynamics, or computational social science, there’s something for you! Call for abstr: encr.pw/pZpX4 📅 29 Jan - 01 Feb 📍Pavia

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Congratulations to @raffaelevacca from @DipartimentoSPS @LaStatale for this invited keynote at a conference on #networks #multiplexity organised by the Romanian Sociologists Society in Bucharest!
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Nigel van Herwijnen from @UABBarcelona presents a paper on the emergence of generalized #trust with #ABM #computational #modeling #simulation at @DipartimentoSPS @LaStatale
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Thanks to a great line-up of colleagues from across the world, ISA RC45 is featuring 14 sessions at next ISA forum in Rabat @isa_sociology! Anyone interested in the modeling of multi-level social mechanisms should submit an abstract by October 15: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/f…
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Kicking off the 2024 Behave Summer School on agent-based modelling 2 weeks (intro advanced) of hands-on training from concept to analysis through coding & data integration w/ opportunities for consultation with the faculty #BehaveSchool2024 @LaStatale @unibs_official
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We are happy to welcome our new post-doctoral researcher Ayan-Yue Gupta Ayan will be working within the ConsNet project w/ @raffaelevacca on network determinants of conspiracy beliefs w/ computational methods Here is some information on Ayan and his work behavelab.org/behave-team/
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New article co-authored by our PhD candidate @estebanmsch on Social Networks on cross-country non-response in social network data collection
Our paper "Nonresponse in name generators across countries and survey modes" with R. González and @adofuentesw has been published in Social Networks. doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.202…
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