Scholar
Luis E C Rocha
Google Scholar ID: ULx9_0gAAAAJ
Ghent University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,023
H-index
23
i10-index
39
Publications
20
Co-authors
60
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Contact
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Selected Publications:
- - The scaling of social interactions across animal species
- - Diffusion on networked systems is a question of time or structure
- - Bursts of Vertex Activation and Epidemics in Evolving Networks
- - Simulated epidemics in an empirical spatiotemporal network of 50,185 sexual contacts
- - Information dynamics shape the sexual networks of Internet-mediated prostitution
Research Experience
- Works on interdisciplinary topics and with collaborators from multiple disciplines such as physics, economics, computer sciences, applied math, engineering, ecology, medical sciences, etc.
Background
- Professor of Econophysics and Social Physics at Ghent University, Belgium. Background in Physics and Informatics, with research focusing on network and data science, particularly network modeling and data analytics, dynamics on and of networks, sampling of hard-to-reach populations, and applications of networks to socio-economic problems and epidemiology.
Miscellany
- Co-organizing NetSci 2025 (June 2nd to 6th, 2025, Maastricht, the Netherlands); provides free software for the visualization of time-evolving/temporal networks; looking for motivated and independent students to develop a Master project, PhD thesis, or Post-doc project under his supervision or co-supervision.
