| Name | Affiliation | Topics |
|---|---|---|
 Luis E C Rocha | Dept Economics, UGent Dept Physics and Astronomy, UGent |
complex networks, social networks, population dynamics, agent-based models, social physics |
| Jan Ryckebusch | Dept Physics and Astronomy, UGent | statistical physics, correlated systems, stochastic processes |
| Koen Schoors | Dept Economics, UGent | institutional economics, networks, financial stability |
Members
Professors
Research Fellows
| Name | Affiliation | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Milan van den Heuvel | Dept Economics, UGent | causality, machine learning, causal machine learning, complexity, socioeconomics |
| Rogier de Langhe | Dept Philosophy and Moral Sciences, UGent | opinion dynamics, institutional evolution, scientific revolutions, technological change, innovation |
PhD Candidates
| Name | Affiliation | Topics | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bart de Clerck | Dept Economics, UGent Royal Military Academy |
online misinformation/disinformation spreading, network methods | Rocha, van Utterbeeck |
| Fatemeh Zarei | Dept Economics, UGent Dept Physics and Astronomy, UGent |
social networks, innovation, opinion dynamics | Rocha, Ryckebusch, Schoors |
| Joke Geeraert | Dept Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law, UGent | social influence, crime, violence | Vandeviver, Rocha |
| Martin Valdez | Dept Economics, UGent Universite de Lille, France |
political economy, distributional macroeconomics, mean field games | Farvaque, Baudin, Schoors, Rocha |
| Ruixue Jing | Dept Economics, UGent | crypto-currencies, data analytics, financial networks | Rocha |
| Ruslan Klymentiev | Dept Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law, UGent | crime, collaboration, agent-based modelling | Vandeviver, Rocha |
| Shabu Esmael | Dept Economics, UGent | trade volatility, economic growth in Africa, econometrics | Rocha, Schoors, Wolteji |
| Stijn De Backer | Dept Physics and Astronomy, UGent | quantum economics, option pricing, stock-market | Ryckenbush, Schoors, Rocha |
| Tekilu Choramo | Dept Economics, UGent | international trade, economic integration Ethiopia, network analytics | Rocha, Gandica, Abafita |
| Tim van Wasemael | Dept Bioengineering, UGent | opinion dynamics, epidemics, networks | Baetens, Rocha |
| Valentin Guien | Dept Bioengineering, UGent | animal behaviour, data science, classification | Koko, Veissier, Antoine, Rocha |
Master Students
| Name | Affiliation | Topics | Supervisor(s) |
|---|
Other
| Name | Affiliation | Topics |
|---|
Associated
| Name | Affiliation | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Christophe Vandeviver | Dept Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law, UGent | criminology, crime data |
| Kevin Hoefman | Dept Economics, UGent | complexity, socioeconomics, virtual worlds |
| Roma Siugzdaite | FLAMES, UAntwerpen | developmental neuroscience, systems and computational neuroscience |
Alumni (from 2020)
| Name | Affiliation | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niels Van Santen | UGent | Master of Physics | (2023) Master: Opinion Dynamics |
| 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, Iran | PhD Engineering | (Dec 2021-Dec 2022) PhD: Network epidemiology |
| Miguel A S Cortes | National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico | Bachelor 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 | UGent | Master of Business Engineering, Data Analytics | (2021) Master: The wisdom of crowds in online communities: the case of prices in European countries |
| Fien Goetmaeckers | UGent | Master of Physics | (2021) Master: Opinion dynamics on temporal social networks |
| Stephan Van Landuyt | UGent | Master of Physics | (2021) Master: Evolution and Dynamics of Cryptocurrencies |
| Andreas Bogaerts | UGent | Master of Business Engineering, Data Analytics | (2020) Master: International migration of sex workers |
| Ewoud Ketele | UGent | Master 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 |