
Raffaele Vacca
@raffaelevacca
Associate prof of sociology at @LaStatale @DipartimentoSPS & @BehaveLab_unimi, previously at @UF • Social networks, migration, health, data science, #rstats
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New article co-authored by our PhD candidate Esteban Muñoz on Social Networks on cross-country non-response in social network data collection

We are happy to welcome our new post-doctoral researcher Ayan-Yue Gupta Ayan will be working within the ConsNet project w/ Raffaele Vacca on network determinants of conspiracy beliefs w/ computational methods Here is some information on Ayan and his work behavelab.org/behave-team/


Kicking off the 2024 Behave Summer School on agent-based modelling 2 weeks (intro + advanced) of hands-on training from concept to analysis through coding & data integration w/ opportunities for consultation with the faculty #BehaveSchool2024 Università degli Studi di Milano Università degli Studi di Brescia



Nigel van Herwijnen from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona presents a paper on the emergence of generalized #trust with #ABM #computational #modeling #simulation at Dip SPS - Unimi Università degli Studi di Milano


Congratulations to Raffaele Vacca from Dip SPS - Unimi Università degli Studi di Milano for this invited keynote at a conference on #networks #multiplexity organised by the Romanian Sociologists Society in Bucharest!


Federico Bianchi Francesco Renzini and I have organized a session at the 2025 @sisecit Conference. If you're into experimental design, network dynamics, or computational social science, there’s something for you! Call for abstr: encr.pw/pZpX4 📅 29 Jan - 01 Feb 📍Pavia

Two wonderful days last week on the beautiful University of Bucharest campus for the 2024 SSR International Conference. Thank you Gabriel Hâncean and SSR organizing committee for inviting me.



Impressed by the *Symposium on Empirically-calibrated Agent-based Models for Mechanism-based Research* organized by Marijn Keijzer (@[email protected]) Lucas Sage Selcan Martin Arvidsson 🇺🇦 at the Toulouse School of Economics 👏👏 I am honored to be part of it & looking forward to it 🙏


Check out the latest article by Francesco Renzini Università degli Studi di Milano on #network #formation dynamics in asymmetric coordination games where he presents an #ABM #computational that explores the link between coordination costs, network structures and preferences! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

We are about to announce the launch of a new Master's Degree in #Computational Social and Political Science at Università degli Studi di Milano in Milan, starting in September 25. Please share this info and my contact to any student potentially interested! More soon!


Our Università degli Studi di Milano #BehaveLab team has a multi-session track on #Experimental #Computational #Network co-chaired by Elena De Gioannis Francesco Renzini & Federico Bianchi at #SISEC25 conference in Università di Pavia Pavia!


Was a pleasure hosting a special issue on social networks and collaborating with wonderful guest-editors @BasakBilecen @miranda_lubbers Raffaele Vacca 👇


Interested in understanding the drivers of the #gender #equality paradox? Check out the latest article with data from 51 countries by our Università degli Studi di Milano #postdoc fellow Elena De Gioannis! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Raffaele Vacca introduces Gabriel Hâncean and his 4PCAN_Project on social determinants of #cancer with #dynamic #networks at a NASP seminar Università degli Studi di Milano!


Happy to see this new Università degli Studi di Milano #Master programme on #computational social and political science, and I can't wait to start working with the faculty, including Andrea Ruggeri LuigiC Raffaele Vacca Elena De Gioannis and many others, and to meet the new students!