Today on the Pod we are lucky to have Laura Alessandretti (1) visiting us.

Laura is an Assistant Professor in Modelling of Human Dynamics at the Technical University of Denmark. She is interested in Computational Social Science, Data Science and Complex Networks. She studies aspects of human behavior combining analysis of large-scale datasets, analytical models and numerical simulations.

Previously, she was a PostDoctoral researcher at the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science and at DTU Compute. Before that, Laura got her PhD in Mathematics at City, University of London, and her Master's in Physics of Complex Systems at École normale supérieure de Lyon. She’s also doing many things to serve the scientific community, for example Laura will be the general chair (with Luca Aiello) of the IC2S2 conference in Copenhagen.

Laura is a close collaborator and a good friend of mine, so today’s podcast is a little bit different than many others. We discuss the long and winding road leading to our joint paper “The Scales of Human Mobility” (2).

The sound is a little less perfect than sometimes, but the content is top-notch, so I hope you’ll stick with it in spite of that.

References
(1) https://laura.alessandretti.com
(2) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2909-1