Members

Professors

NameAffiliationTopics
Luis E C Rocha Dept Economics
Dept Physics and Astronomy
complex networks, social networks, population dynamics, agent-based models, social physics
Jan Ryckebusch Dept Physics and Astronomy statistical physics, correlated systems, stochastic processes
Koen Schoors Dept Economics institutional economics, networks, financial stability


Research Fellows

NameAffiliationTopics
Gonzalo G Villa-Cox
Dept Economics / Dept Agricultural Economics resource economics, computational economics, econometrics
Milan van den Heuvel
Dept Economics causality, machine learning, causal machine learning, complexity, socioeconomics
Rogier de Langhe
Dept Philosophy and Moral Sciences opinion dynamics, institutional evolution, scientific revolutions, technological change, innovation


PhD Candidates

NameAffiliationTopicsSupervisor(s)
Fatemeh Zarei
Dept Economics
Dept Physics and Astronomy
social networks, innovation, opinion dynamicsRocha, Ryckebusch, Schoors
Joke Geeraert
Dept Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law social influence, crime, violenceVandeviver, Rocha
Ruixue Jing
Dept Economics crypto-currencies, data analytics, financial networksRocha
Ruslan Klymentiev
Dept Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law crime, collaboration, agent-based modellingVandeviver, Rocha
Shabu Esmael
Dept Economics trade volatility, economic growth in Africa, econometricsRocha, Schoors, Wolteji
Stijn De Backer
Dept Physics and Astronomy quantum economics, option pricing, stock-marketRyckenbush, Schoors, Rocha
Tekilu Choramo
Dept Economics international trade, economic integration Ethiopia, network analyticsRocha, Gandica, Abafita
Tim van Wasemael
Dept Bioengineering opinion dynamics, epidemics, networksBaetens, Rocha
Valentin Guien
Dept Computer Science, Uni. Clermont Auvergne, France animal behaviour, data science, classificationKoko, Veissier, Antoine, Rocha


Master Students

NameAffiliationTopicsSupervisor(s)
Mauritz Carlier
Physics ABM and banks Rocha
Gentian Elshani
Finance cryptocurrencies Rocha
Michiel Vandenbossche
Finance cryptocurrencies Rocha


Other

NameAffiliationTopics


Associated

NameAffiliationTopics
Kevin Hoefman
Dept Economics, UGent complexity, socioeconomics, virtual worlds
Roma Siugzdaite
FLAMES, UAntwerpen developmental neuroscience, systems and computational neuroscience


Alumni (from 2020)

NameAffiliationTitle
Bart de Clerck
UGent/RMA Doctor of Business Economics (2024) PhD: Identifying online misinformation and disinformation spreading using graph theory
Martin A Valdez Quintero
ULille/UGent Doctor of Economics (2024) PhD: Essays in distributional macroeconomics and political economy
Senne Van Wellen
UGent Master of Physics (2024) Master: Agent-based modeling and simulation of gravitating systems
Claire Gyselings
UGent Master of Engineering Physics (2024) Master: Voluntary vaccination games on networks with heterogeneous behavior
Niels Van Santen
UGent Master of Physics (2023) Master: Peer pressure and external stimulus on the majority opinion dynamics model
Leon Adriaensen
UGent Master of Physics (2023) Master: Classification algorithms
Mateo Bruggeman
UGent Master of Business: Corporate Finance (2023) Master: Systemic risk
Siebe Roose
UGent Epic Programme - UGent (2023) Undergraduate physics student: Quantum Economics
Corneel Casert
UGent Doctor of Physics (2023) PhD: Artificial neural networks and tensor networks in Variational Monte Carlo
Tom Vieijra
UGent Doctor of Physics (2022) PhD: Artificial neural networks and tensor networks in Variational Monte Carlo
Ciem Cornelissen
UGent Master of Physics (2022) Master: Criticality and forecasting of the cryptocurrencymarket
Zahra Farahi
Tehran University, IranPhD Engineering (Dec 2021-Dec 2022) PhD: Network epidemiology
Miguel A S Cortes
National Autonomous University of Mexico, MexicoBachelor in Physics (Sept 2021-Dec 2021) Undergrad: Predicting voting patterns
Jean Janssens
UGent Business Engineering, Data Analytics, UGent (2021) Other: Company co-ownership networks
Nina Botte
UGent Master of Physics (2021) Master: Opinion dynamics on social networks with stubborn actors
Nathan De Wilde
UGentMaster of Business Engineering, Data Analytics (2021) Master: The wisdom of crowds in online communities: the case of prices in European countries
Fien Goetmaeckers
UGentMaster of Physics (2021) Master: Opinion dynamics on temporal social networks
Stephan Van Landuyt
UGentMaster of Physics (2021) Master: Evolution and Dynamics of Cryptocurrencies
Andreas Bogaerts
UGentMaster of Business Engineering, Data Analytics (2020) Master: International migration of sex workers
Ewoud Ketele
UGentMaster of Physics (2020) Master: Coalition modeling: From spin glasses to human societies
Kevin Hoefman
UGent Doctor of Physics and Applied Economics (2020) PhD: Live agent-based models
Andres M Belaza Vallejo
UGent Doctor of Physics and Applied Economics (2020) PhD: Statistical physics of social-economic systems in real and virtual worlds