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Postdoc researcher

Technical University of Denmark

Research human behavior and residential mobilty usnig registry data.

• Complex Systems
• Epidemics
• Computational Social Science
• Infodemics
• Network Science

Postdoc researcher

ISI FOundation

Research on epidemics and human behavior using non-conventional data.

• Complex Systems
• Epidemics
• Computational Social Science
• Infodemics
• Network Science

BS

University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Theoretical Physics

MS

University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Theoretical Physics

PhD

University of Parma, Italy

Physics

Political Issue or Public Health: the Vaccination Debate on Twitter in Europe

Sci Rep 14, 4397 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54863-7

Exploration of the relationship between the political interest of social media users and their exposure to vaccine-hesitant content on Twitter in 17 European countries, finding that users following right-wing or anti-EU politicians are more likely to encounter such content during the early months of the pandemic.

Global Misinformation Spillovers in the Vaccination Debate Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multilingual Twitter Study

JMIR Infodemiology 3:e44714 (2023), doi: 10.2196/44714

Exploration of the global network of anti-vaccination communities on Twitter, and the role that content moderation efforts by Twitter had worldwide in reducing the spread of vaccine-related misinformation.

Impact of food-related conflicts on self-reported food insecurity

Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7:1239992. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1239992

Echoes through Time: Evolution of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccination Debate

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 16(1) (2022), doi:10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19276

Exploration of the Italian network of anti-vaccination communities on Twitter.

Phase transitions and stability of dynamical processes on hypergraphs

Communications Physics 4, 24 (2021), doi:10.1038/s42005-021-00525-3

Analytical framework supported by synthetic experiments for stability analysis of general processes on high-order structures.

Integrating digital and field surveillance as complementary efforts to manage epidemic diseases of livestock: African swine fever as a case study

PLOS One 16(12): e0252972 (2021), doi:journal.pone.0252972

Collective Response to Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Reddit and Wikipedia: Mixed-Methods Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research 22 (10) (2020), doi:10.2196/21597

Exploration of the relationship between media coverage, public response, and the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that media coverage drives public attention and raises questions about the impact of attention saturation on collective awareness and behavioral change.

Epidemic spreading and aging in temporal networks with memory

Physical Review E 98 (6), 062315, doi:PhysRevE.98.062315

Analysis of the effects of memory among individuals on the spreading of a disease using the activity-driven model.

EPIDEMIOLOGY

The following are the scientific outputs describing the employment of both traditional and non-traditional data sources to inform statistical and computational models for analyzing the effect of human behavior and policy on epidemic spreading.

• Epidemics
• Survey
• COntact matrices

NETWORK SCIENCE

The following scientific outputs underline my interest in exploring the theoretical implications of network models on dynamical systems. Particularly, I focused on analyzing how epidemics evolve on temporal networks and how diffusion processes spread on hypergraphs. The following works reflect this effort.

• Hypergraph
• Temporal Networks

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE and DATA FOR SOCIAL GOOD

The following scientific outputs shows the involvement in using large database to infer behavior from social networks. The primary focus encompassed public health, and additionally food insecurity driven by conflicts.

• Big Data
• No-traditional data sources