Current PhD Students

• Yun-Sheng Lee (QMUL, started in 2025: Applications of Graph Theory and Network Science in Football)
  
• Chenyang Li (QMUL, started in 2024: Networks Analysis of Innovation Ecosystems)
  
• Yujie Zeng (QMUL, started in 2024: Data-Driven Discovery of Interaction Structures in Complex Ecosystems)
  
• Giacomo Frigerio (UniCT, started in 2025: Coevolutionary game theory)
  
• Susanna Caruso (UniCT, started in 2024: The structure and dynamics of complex ecosystems)
  

Visiting PhD Students (2025)

• Federico Maria Quetti, PhD student, University of Pavia, Italy
• Ye Wang, PhD student, Peking University, Beijing
• Ester Cima, MSc student, University of Bologna, Italy

Former Students and Postdocs

• Unai Alvarez, University of the Basque Country
  
• Salvatore Assenza, Theoretical Condensed Matter Group, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
  
• Federico Battiston (PhD QMUL 2017: The structure and dynamics of multiplex networks)
  Associate Professor, Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University
  
• Moreno Bonaventura (PhD QMUL 2016 Network indicators of performance in innovation ecosystems)
  Lead Machine Learning Engineer at InReach Ventures
  
• Claudio Caprioli (PhD UniCT 2025: Network Gastronomy: Exploring the Links Between Recipes, Cuisines, and Chefs)
  Postdoc UniCT
  
• Alessio Cardillo, Assistant Professor, University of Barcelona
  
• Valerio Ciotti (PhD QMUL 2017: Positive and negative connections and homophily in complex networks)
  Data Scientist at "Barclays UK"
  
• Andrea Civilini (PhD QMUL 2023: Models of competition and social dilemmas on graphs and hypergraphs),
  Research Assistant, UniCT
  
• Paolo Crucitti, Partner at Blue Reply, Italy
  
• Marina Diakonova, Data Scientist at Banco de Espana, Madrid, Spain
  
• Gabriele Di Bona (PhD QMUL 2023: The social components of innovation: from data analysis to mathematical modelling)
  Postdoc Paris Sorbonne
  
• Luca Gallo (PhD UniCT 2022: Coupled dynamical systems in presence of higher-order interactions)
  Postdoctoral Researcher, Corvinus University of Budapest
  
• Reza Ghorbanchian (PhD QMUL 2023: Higher Order Processes on Multiplex Networks and Simplicial Complexes)
  
• Jesus Gomez-Gardenes, Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza
  
• Beniamino Guerra, Department of Epidemiology, University of Zurich
  
• Alessandro Fiasconaro, Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza
  
• Iacopo Iacopini (PhD QMUL 2020: Social dynamics of contagion and innovation)
  Associate Professor, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London
  
• Federico Malizia (PhD UniCT 2023: Exploring the interplay between structure and dynamics in higher-order systems )
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Central European University
  
• Vincenzo Nicosia, Lecturer in Networks and Data Analysis, QMUL
  
• Daniele Petrone (PhD QMUL 2021: AI and network theory applied to financial systemic risk)
  
• Rosario Elio Profumo, Physique Statistique, CEA Grenoble
  
• Salvatore Scellato, Director of Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
  
• Emanuele Strano, Founder of MindEarth
  
• Ye Sun (Phd QMUL 2021: The evolution of knowledge sharing, interdisciplinariety and funding in modern science)
  Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing
  
• Roberta Sinatra (PhD UniCT 2012: High-order Markov Chains in Networks)
  Professor, SODAS, University of Copenhagen
  
• Oliver Williams (Phd QMUL 2019: Temporal networks and the effects of memory)