Research group

Current members

Postdocs

Dr. Ali Faqeeh – ECANET, DECA & CON-NET projects
Dr. Arttu Malkamäki – DECA project

Doctoral students

Tarmo Nurmi – Structural patterns in multilayer networks
Yan Xia – Spreading of content in online social networks
Hasti Nariman – Network methods in science of science
Ali Salloum – Generalized network representation methods for understanding polarization and group formation
Letizia Iannucci – Detecting coordinated behaviour and polarization on social media

Previous members and completed theses

Postdocs

Dr. Ted Chen – ECANET project (2019 – 2022)
Dr. Antonis Matakos – DECA project (2023 – 2024)

Doctoral students

Dr. Darko Hric – Community detection in complex networks – the role of node metadata (2017, with Kimmo Kaski, Santo Fortunato)
Dr. Pietro Della Briotta Parolo – Analysis of Cumulative and Temporal Patterns in Science (2017, with Kimmo Kaski, Santo Fortunato)
Dr. Arash Badie ModiriReachability and Spreading Processesin Temporal Networks (2018 – 2022)
Dr. Abbas Karimi RiziSpreadingand Epidemic Interventions: Effects of Network Structure and Dynamics (2020 – 2024)

Javier Ureña Carrion – Structured Interactions: inferring social behavior in networked systems

MSc thesis students

Ali Salloum – Quantifying polarisation and echo chamber effects in social networks (2021)
Yan Xia – Exploring the Spread of Tweets in Climate Discussion (2021)
Tarmo Nurmi – Constructing and multilayer motif analysis of temporal fMRI networks (2019)
Javier Ureña Carrion – Predicting social tie strengths using communication activity features (2019)
Daniele Romanini – Uniqueness and Structure of Neighborhoods in Multiplex Networks (2018)
Arash Badie Modiri – Error and Attack Tolerance of Public Transportation Networks: A Temporal Networks Approach (2018)
Sallamari Sallmen – Graphlets in Multilayer Networks (2017-2018)

Other students

Silja Sormunen – Inferring co-occurrences from WiFi logs (2018)

Esa Palosaari – Multilayer networks of organisations and social media (2020)

Visiting members

Dr. Kęstutis Baltakys (2019 – 2020)