Anne Roefs

The network approach to understanding and treating psychopathology. Chasing rainbows or finding gold?

Anne’s research focuses mainly on the neuroscience and psychology of overweight, obesity and eating disorders. Funded by an NWO-VIDI grant, she examined how dietary restraint, bodyweight, and mindset influence neural representations of food, using fMRI. In 2023, she started a new project, funded by an NWO-VICI grant, focused on personalized understanding and treatment of overweight and obesity (www.theendofaverage.nl). The network approach to psychopathology features centrally in her recent research as well, and she is a co-PI in the Gravitation Project New Science of Mental Disorders (www.nsmd.eu). Life is not only work, and she loves a healthy lifestyle. As often as time allows, she is playing tennis or padel, or goes for a run, and recently started teaching kids the fundamentals of tennis.

Riet Van Bork

Measuring psychological constructs in the network framework

I research the contrast between traditional latent variable frameworks (where attributes cause shared variance among observed variables) and network perspectives (where direct causal relations between observed variables form clusters representing psychological attributes). My work combines empirical comparisons of these models with philosophical exploration of statistical interpretation, questioning how we conceptualize common factors, random variables, and what constitutes "observed" variables in psychological measurement.

Omid Ebrahimi

Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients:

leveraging psychometric networks and symptom dynamics in the assessment and treatment of mental disorders

Omid V. Ebrahimi is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the mechanisms underlying the development and maintenance of common mental health disorders (i.e. depression and anxiety) using multi-level and systems-based approaches, including models from network psychometrics and the dynamical systems field. In particular, this research examines how critical incidents occurring at the national and global level (e.g., infectious disease outbreaks, climate change, and economic recession) impact the development of common mental disorders and can alter human behaviour.

Tiago Pereira

Emergent hypernetworks in weakly coupled oscillators

Tiago Pereira is a Professor of Mathematics at the Universidade de São Paulo and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. His distinguished achievements include the International Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship, the Leverhulme Fellowship, and the Newton Advanced Fellowship from the Royal Society. He is a member of the Brazilian academy of sciences and a Bessel Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation and a Serrapilheira Fellowship recipient. Dr. Pereira received the Johannes Keppler Prize from the Brazilian Applied Mathematical Society in 2023 and the Marguerite Frank Award for Best Paper in 2022. In 2023, his student won Brazil's Best PhD Thesis in Applied Mathematics award.

Christof Schütte

Emergence in Multiscale Social Networks

Christof Schütte studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science in Paderborn and got his doctorate in Mathematics in Berlin in 1994. He has held a full professorship for Scientific Computing at FU Berlin since 2000. In 2015 he became President of the Zuse Institute Berlin, and in 2021 the head of the National High-Performance Computing Alliance in Germany. His research activities focus on data-driven modelling, simulation and optimization of complex processes with applications mainly to the life and social sciences. Christof Schuette acted as chair of the DFG research center MATHEON and as chair of the Cluster of Excellence MATH+.

Ginestra Bianconi

Topology and geometry shape the dynamics of higher-order networks

Ginestra Bianconi is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary University of London. She is member or the European Academy of Sciences. Currently she is Chief Editor of JPhys Complexity, Editor of PloSOne, and Scientific Reports. Awards: APS Fellow, Network Science Fellow and chair Franqui 2023.Her research activity on Statistical Mechanics and Network Science includes Network Theory and its interdisciplinary applications. She has formulated the Bianconi-Barabasi model that displays the Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. She has formulated the statistical mechanics of network ensembles and she has proven their non-equivalence. She has made important contribution on the study of critical phenomena on networks. In the last years, she has been focusing on multilayer networks, simplicial complexes, network geometry and topology, percolation, synchronization and network control. She is the author of the books Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function (Oxford University Press, 2018), Higher-order Networks: An introduction to simplicial complexes (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and editor of Networks of Networks in Biology (Cambridge University Press, 2021).