Our recently published, NERDS-involved Nature paper “The universal visitation law of human mobility” has received some prominent, international media coverage in the last month. Here a selection of news articles that explain the paper’s findings and implications:
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Die Vorhersa
Door gegevens van mobiele telefoons weten we nu: stedelingen reizen niet vaak naar andere stadsdelen
Roberta Sinatra wins Villum Young Investigators grant
Roberta Sinatra was one of the 19 recipients of this year’s Villum Young Investigators grant!
The Villum Young Investigator programme (YIP) focuses on attracting and retaining talented young Danish and international researchers at Danish universities. The aim is to support the development of high-level international research environments in the universities.
Roberta’s winning proposal was awarded with DKK 6M:
Bias Explained: Pushing Algorithmic Fairness with Models and Experiments
Algorithms for ranking scientific information have an issue: they use citations, which are ingrained with human biases. Therefore, their output is also biased, creating inequalities and raising concerns of discrimination. This project aims to uncover the mathematical bias mechanisms that drive different citation trajectories given same quality, and to use them for creating fair algorithms.
We are overwhelmed with joy for Roberta’s success, and are looking forward to her future groundbreaking research. The grant will allow the recruitment of one PhD student and two postdocs – so stay tuned for upcoming job calls.
Link: https://veluxfoundations.dk/en/19-new-villum-young-investigators-in-2021
Roberta Sinatra receives CSS award
Today Roberta Sinatra received this year’s Complex Systems Society Junior Scientific Award!
The award was given for Roberta’s
pioneer contributions to the science of science and success, having had an impact in multiple fields, from network science to computational social science and scientometrics
The award is given once a year to two young CSS researchers, aimed at recognizing extraordinary scientific achievements: https://cssociety.org/community/css-awards
Promotions, promotions, promotions
Three NERDS were promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor as of today, Oct 1: Michele Coscia, Roberta Sinatra, Michael Szell
That’s all 🙂
Roberta Sinatra presented at Prix Monte-Carlo Femme de l’Année
NERDS member Roberta Sinatra has returned from Monte Carlo, where she presented her research in an inspiring keynote talk for the yearly Prix Monte-Carlo Femme de l’Année. The theme of this year’s edition of the accompanying Women For Women (W4W) conference was Arts & Science, to which Roberta’s recent research on the scientific quantification of success in art fit perfectly. The conference was held in a very special place: the headquarters of Monaco’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The talk and its consequent discussions were well-received by the mainly female audience, and by The Prix’ illustrious patrons such as Walgreens Boots Alliance COO Ornella Barbara or the reigning monarch of Monaco, Prince Albert II.
For more information see: this Monegasque media report