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| Dec 04, 2026 | I’m attending the 15th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (Granada, 2-4th Dec), presenting my work Modelling the complex dynamics of online disinformation cascades. |
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| Oct 02, 2026 | I co-organised the Deep Dive in Agentic AI & news organisations, creating a space for academia and media stakeholders to discuss the changes that agentic AI will bring in news production and consumption. You can read about what was discussed at this blogpost. |
| Jun 26, 2026 | I tutored a project at Complexity72h in London, UK. I had an amazing team of 10 researchers with whom we made this preprint in just 72h!: SimPol: Simulating polarisation in political belief networks in European countries. We are currently working on it to submit it to a journal. |
| May 21, 2026 | I attended the conference Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of Computational Social Science, hosted by the Central European University and the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. Very inspiring talks and conversations! |
| Apr 21, 2026 | We have been awarded a SoBe DSC RPA Grant (€10,000) from the University of Amsterdam for our interdisciplinary data science project Scrolling into division: An interdisciplinary data-to-model approach examining political discussion and (de)polarization among young TikTok users ! |
| Mar 27, 2026 | I gave an invited talk to the Computational Science Lab titled Modelling interventions against fake news from coordinated inauthentic behaviour. |
| Feb 10, 2026 | I volunteered at the ELSA Network Day organised by our lab. I held a round table about the topic Interdisciplinarity and creativity in research, and helped taking notes in the afternoon talks. You can read more about it from this blogpost. |
| Oct 16, 2025 | I gave a talk of my research at DIEP titled Analysing optimal strategies of influence maximisation on complex networks. |
| Sep 30, 2025 | I have become an IAS Next Lead at the Institute for Advanced Study (University of Amsterdam). IAS NEXT aims to act as a community of early-career researchers working on interdisciplinary topics. |
| Aug 25, 2025 | I attended the Social Simulation Conference 2025 online, from which I came closer to the social sciences perspectives to agent-based modelling. |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Very happy to join Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working on AI/multi-agent models for the dynamics and prevention of disinformation and polarisation! I’m also part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab, where I’ll work along with researchers from communication science, law, and computer science. |
| Jun 24, 2025 | I delievered the workshop Community Detection in Networks: An Overview at the Sunbelt 2025 in Paris, where I taught the intricacies of applying community detection methods to an audience from the social sciences. Slides from my talk can be found here. |
| Apr 23, 2025 | I organised the Symposium on Opinion Shift, Social Influence, and External Manipulation at the University of Edinburgh, with invited speakers from computer science, psychology, and social sciences, and funded by Edinburgh Complexity (£1,000). |
| Dec 15, 2024 | I received a Staff Award from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, for the second time, for my contributions in leading the Informatics Research Staff Society, for community-building and advocacy of research staff (postdocs, research fellows, research interns, etc). |
| Nov 15, 2024 | I gave a lightning talk and presented a poster at the Pioneering AI in MLTC: Bridging Research and Practice Conference in Manchester, UK. |
| Oct 24, 2024 | After many months in the organising, we finally hosted the AI for Multimorbidity ECRs Interdisciplinarity Day in Edinburgh, funded by a £10,000 grant from the AIM RSF. For knowing more about how the event went, see this blogpost. |
| Sep 01, 2024 | I supervised two MSc dissertations at the University of Edinburgh, one of them awarded Best Dissertation for the Data Science MSc. |
| Aug 15, 2024 | I was awarded £10,000 by the AIM RSF to fund an Early-Career Researcher workshop. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | I co-chaired the Bridging AI and Psychology (BAIPsy) Student Workshop at the University of Edinburgh. A deeply inspiring event! |
| Jun 15, 2024 | Received a Contribution Reward for Sustained Excellence from the University of Edinburgh, for my contributions in leading the Informatics Research Staff Society — a platform for community-building and advocacy of research staff (postdocs, research fellows, research interns, etc). |
| Jun 03, 2024 | Gave a departmental seminar at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, titled A Methodological Overview of Disease Network Inference from Electronic Health Records: The Quest of Capturing Associations Between Binary Variables. |
| Apr 24, 2024 | I gave an oral presentation at the AIM ECR Lunchtime Session titled Multimorbidity analysis with low condition counts: a robust Bayesian approach for small but important subgroups. |
| Jan 29, 2024 | I Completed my PhD at the University of Southampton!  titled Influence maximisation and adaptive control of opinion dynamics on complex networks. |
| Nov 23, 2023 | Gave a lightning presentation at the AIM RSF Early-Career Researcher event in London, UK. |
| Nov 01, 2023 | Gave a lightning talk at the Early Career Researcher Lightning Talk Session of the Statistical Methods Community of Practice. |
| Oct 15, 2023 | Gave an oral presentation at the Joint workshop AIML-FHAIVE, University of Edinburgh. |
| Oct 01, 2023 | Supervised a MAC-MIGS PhD CDT Taster Project at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Became the AIM-CISC Early-Career Researcher Representative for the AIM RSF. |
| May 20, 2023 | Gave an oral and a poster presentation at the AIM RSF Conference. |
| May 03, 2023 | Gave a departmental seminar at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Presented a poster at the Informatics Impact Celebration, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Received a Staff Award from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. |
| Nov 09, 2022 | Gave an oral presentation, Building co-morbidity networks via Bayesian network reconstruction, at The 11th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications in Palermo, Italy. |
| Oct 01, 2022 | Became Chair of the Informatics Research Staff Society at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Sep 15, 2022 | Started co-organising the AIAI seminars and the Networks Reading Group at the University of Edinburgh. |
| Dec 01, 2021 | Gave an oral presentation, Sensing Enhancement on Complex Networks, at The 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications in Madrid, Spain. |
| Nov 01, 2021 | Joined the University of Edinburgh as a Research Associate, working on network-based analysis of multimorbidity from Electronic Health Records. |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Gave an oral presentation at the Conference on Complex Systems 2021 in Lyon, France. |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Gave a guest lecture on Network Visualisation for the Data Visualisation course at the University of Southampton. |
| Oct 01, 2020 | Became Academic Representative of the AIC PhD Student Committee at the University of Southampton. |
| May 10, 2020 | Gave an oral presentation, Continuous influence maximisation for the voter dynamics: is targeting high-degree nodes a good strategy?, at the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2020), Auckland, New Zealand. |
| Apr 01, 2020 | Presented a poster, Zealotry and Influence Maximization in the Voter Model: When to Target Partial Zealots?, at the 11th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2020) in Exeter, UK. |
| Dec 11, 2019 | Gave an oral presentation, Shielding and shadowing: a tale of two strategies for opinion control in the voting dynamics, at The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications in Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Nov 15, 2019 | Presented a poster at the AI3SD (Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigations for Scientific Discovery) conference in Winchester, UK. |
| Sep 05, 2019 | Gave an oral presentation at the European Consortium for Political Research 13th General Conference in Wrocław, Poland. |
| Jul 17, 2019 | Gave an oral presentation at the European Survey Research Association 8th Conference in Zagreb, Croatia. |
| May 15, 2019 | Presented a poster on saliency maps on CNNs for protein secondary structure prediction at ICASSP 2019 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing) in Brighton, UK. |
| Apr 28, 2019 | Aquienvoto.org, a voting advice application whose survey design I contributed to, was launched for the Spanish general elections, reaching nearly two million uses. |
| Nov 19, 2018 | Completed my MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton, with the dissertation Saliency Maps on CNNs for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction. |
| Oct 01, 2018 | Started my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Southampton, supervised by Dr. Markus Brede, funded by an Electronics & Computer Science DTP Studentship. |
| Aug 23, 2018 | Gave an oral presentation at the European Consortium for Political Research 12th General Conference in Hamburg, Germany. |