A. Baronchelli
Andrea Baronchelli obtained is Ph.D. in Physics in Jan. 2007 from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he had previously completed his undergraduate degree in June 2004. He then moved to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech in Spain, where he conducted his research as a University Postdoc since 2007, and as a Juan de la Cierva Fellow since 2009. In January 2012 he joined Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate.

Baronchelli’s research focuses on the study of complex networks and on the way they affect the dynamical processes taking place upon them. At the same time, he pursues an interdisciplinary research agenda centered on the modeling of social and biological systems, with particular regard to issues in linguistics, cognitive science and evolutionary dynamics.

Email:     a.baronchelli [at] neu [dot] edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/andreabaronchelli/ 
A. Barrat
Alain Barrat obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the university of Paris VI (France) in 1996. He then spent two years at the Abdus Salam ICTP in Trieste, Italy, as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1998, he entered the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) of France with a permanent position as junior researcher. He spent 10 years as a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at the University of Paris-Sud. He is currently CNRS senior researcher at the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France. He is also research scientist at the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy.

His research interests are in the field of disordered systems and out of equilibrium statistical mechanics. In the last years, his activity has focused on the study of complex networks and of the attached dynamical processes. His research has interdisciplinary applications such as the analysis of technological networks (Internet, transportation networks), the understanding of consensus formation in social networks or the study of epidemic spreading phenomena


Email: alain.barrat [at] cpt [dot] univ-mrs [dot] fr 
Website: http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~barrat
R. Pastor-Satorras
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras works  in the fields of network
science and stochastic processes, focusing  in the analysis and
modelization of complex networks, non-equilibrium phase transition in networks, and the statistical physics of social systems.

He completed his PhD studies in the Universitat de Barcelona in 1995, and held research positions Yale University, USA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. Presently, he is Associate Professor of Applied Physics at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. He has been awarded the ICREA Academia Prize for excellence in Research by the ICREA Foundation (Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain).  He is  the author of the book "Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004), in collaboration with Prof. A. Vespignani. 


Email: romualdo.pastor [at] upc [dot] edu
Website: http://www-fen.upc.es/~romu/
N. Perra
Nicola Perra completed his Ph.D. in Physics in 2011 at University of Cagliari, Italy. From November 2008 till July 2009 he was Visiting Scholar at the Complex Networks group of the Indiana university in Bloomington, IN, USA. From July 2009 till August 2011 he was Research Associate at the Center for Complex Networks Systems Research of the Indiana university in Bloomington, IN, USA.  From September 2011 till now he is Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA.

His research activity focuses on using analytical, computational and data analysis methods for the study of Complex Systems. He is currently involved in the modeling of epidemic spreading in structured populations, characterization of behavioral changes due to the spreading of infectious diseases, social networks modeling and in general human behavior in socio-technical networks.

Email:     n.perra [at] neu [dot] edu
Website: www.nicolaperra.com 
B. Ribeiro
Bruno Ribeiro obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher jointly at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Ribeiro has been a visiting researcher at Northeastern University since 2012.

Ribeiro's research focuses on applications of probability theory and statistics to complex systems, with an emphasis on the design of principled experiments to accurately characterize dynamic processes evolving on top of complex networks in the wild.

Email: ribeiro [at] cs.umass [dot ]edu
Website: https://www.cs.umass.edu/~ribeiro/
M. Starnini
Michele Starnini is currently third-year PhD student at the "Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech", in Spain. He completed his master in theoretical physics at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2010. In the same year, he realized his master thesis at the University "Carlos III", Madrid.
 
His research activity focuses on the study of dynamical networks, from both points of view of properties analysis and modeling. In particular, his interests are in the field of human dynamics, and related dynamical processes, such as epidemic spreading and opinion formation.


Email: michele.starnini [at] gmail [dot] com
Important dates

30 June, 2013 
Submission deadline

31 July, 2013
Notification acceptance 

19 September, 2013
Satellite Meeting