Short bio
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Network and Data Science at the Central European University (CEU), Vienna, Austria.
I have received my Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Bremen in 2017. Previously, I have been an Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bath (2016-2019), External Researcher at the ISI Foundation (2015-2020), and post-doc researcher at the University of Bremen (2011-2016) and Technical University of Darmstadt (2008-2011).
I have received my PhD in Physics at the University of São Paulo in 2008.
My work was recognized with the Erdős–Rényi Prize from the Network Science Society in 2019.
I also received a Alexander von Humbolt Foundation fellowship in 2008.
And most importantly, I’m the proud 6th recipient of the distinguished Karate Club Club prize. 🥋🏆
About myself
I’m a nerd; I do things for the innate pleasure of doing them, not fame and fortune (“Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.”) Details are everything. I’m a proponent of rigorous intellectual promiscuity. Data compression is a really cool and robust paradigm for scientific inquiry, and I wish more people would recognize that. People that insist in labelling themselves “non-Bayesians” are total dorks. Programming is a stress-relieving activity for me, and I wish I had more time to devote to it. Free Software \(\gg\) Open Source. Contrary to what may seem, I spend surprisingly little time thinking about network visualizations.