Professor of Sociology, Emmanuel Lazega from The Paris Institute of Political Studies, (Sciences Po) gave a talk about his research on high, inconsistent and cross-level status in political networks. Prof. Lazega is a recognized researcher in the field of social networks, a recipient of the prestigious Georg Simmel Award in 2018 for his contribution to the field.

Weighted networks provide meaningful information for the structure of complex systems where interacting entities are connected with links weighted by the strength of their interaction. In his recent presentation, Gerardo Iñiguez González, Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at CEU, shared his research about threshold driven contagion on weighted networks.