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My name is Federico. I am an Associate Professor in Network Science, Director of the PhD Program in Network Science, the first of its kind in Europe.
I also hold an Italian National Habilitation to Full Professor in both Theoretical Physics and Applied Physics.
Before joining CEU (where I was a Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor before my current position) I was a PostDoc at University College London, at the University of Zurich and at the Paris Brain Institute. I hold a PhD from Queen Mary University of London (under the supervision of Vito Latora). Before that, I received BSc and MSc degrees in statistical physics from Sapienza University of Rome.
I work on network science, complex systems and computational social science. My research has appeared in leading international journals, including Science (1), Nature (1), Nature Physics (3), Physical Review Letters (5), Nature Communications (6), Nature Human Behaviour (2), Science Advances (3), Nature Reviews Physics (2), Physics Reports (1), and more. Several of such contributions come as first or last-author, and have been selected as Editor's highlights.
A complete list of my publications can be found in Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aDf1nroAAAAJ&hl=en
My research has been recognized by the following awards:
Erdos-Renyi Prize (2025): https://netscisociety.net/award-prizes/er-prize
Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics (2025): https://www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/fachlich/skm/fvsoe/young-scient…
Junior Award of the Complex Systems Society (2022): https://cssociety.org/news/122
Early Career Prize in Statistical and NonLinear Physics of the European Physical Society (2021): https://www.eps.org/members/group.aspx?id=85204
CEU Award for Outstanding Research (2021): https://www.ceu.edu/2021-excellence
My research has been funded as PI by several FWF (Austria Science Fund) projects, and by AFOSR.
I was the Chairman of NetSci2023, the flagship conference of the Network Science Society, whose hosted 861 network scientists in Vienna in July 2023 (the largest NetSci ever!). I am the editor of the book 'Higher-order systems' for the Springer series Understanding Complex Systems. I am part of the Program Committees of NetSci, CCS, IC2S2 and CompleNet, and a former elected Chair of the young researchers of the Complex Systems Society. I am the Network Associate Editor for (Nature) Communications Physics, for which I curate publications in the field of network science and complex systems. In 2021 I have also guest-edited the first ever Focus Collection for this journal, on the topic of 'Higher-order interaction networks'.
PhD Students (7 completed, 6 ongoing):
Completed: Milan Janosov (2020), Luis Natera (2021), Rebeka Szabo (2022), Leonardo Di Gaetano (2025), Sandeep Chowdhary (2025), Francesco Lotito (2025), Onkar Sadekar (2025)
Ongoing: Lorenzo Betti, Helcio Felippe, Berne' Nortier, Qiuya Gao, Kingshuk Dutta, Dima Mrad
Several PhD students working under my supervision have received the CEU Advanced Award for Doctoral Students.
Teaching:
Structure & Dynamics of Complex Networks (PhD in Network Science)
Network Science (MSc in Social Data Science)
Introduction to Complex Systems (BSc in Data Science & Society)
I coordinate the software project HGX (Hypergraphx), a library to study networks with higher-order interactions:
https://github.com/HGX-Team/hypergraphx