Program
The detailed program will be published after the notification of acceptance.
Confirmed Speakers
Maximilian Schich
Professor of Cultural Data Analytics
Tallinn University, Estonia
Multidisciplinary scientist trained in art history and classical archaeology in Munich and Berlin. His doctoral thesis pioneered the description of the reception of Antiquity as a complex network. Following postdoctoral work at the BarabásiLab (Northeastern University, Boston) and with Dirk Helbing in Zurich, he was Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Since 2020 he has been at Tallinn University, where he led the ERA Chair in Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN), funded by the European Commission with 2.5 million euros.
Ronaldo Menezes
Professor of Data and Network Science
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Brazilian-born computer scientist. He directs the BioComplex Laboratory at the University of Exeter, where he was Head of Computer Science (2018–2022) and is now Director of Global Engagement, after 18 years at the Florida Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD from the University of York, an MSc from UNICAMP and a BSc from the University of Fortaleza. He is co-editor-in-chief of Applied Network Science (Springer Nature), a member of the steering committees of CompleNet and the Complex Systems Society, and a former board member of the Network Science Society. His research models human mobility and spatio-temporal data with network science, and applies data science to the reduction of inequalities.
