Professor Ginestra Bianconi

Profile

Ginestra Bianconi is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary University of London. She is member or the European Academy of Sciences. Currently she is Chief Editor of JPhys Complexity, Editor of PloSOne, and Scientific Reports. Awards: APS Fellow, Network Science Fellow and chair Franqui 2023.

Her research activity on Statistical Mechanics and Network Science includes Network Theory and its interdisciplinary applications. She has formulated the Bianconi-Barabasi model that displays the Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. She has formulated the statistical mechanics of  network ensembles and she has proven their non-equivalence. She has made important contribution on the study of critical phenomena on networks. In the last years, she has been focusing on multilayer networks, simplicial complexes, network geometry and topology, percolation, synchronization and network control. She is the author of the books Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function (Oxford University Press, 2018),  Higher-order Networks: An introduction to simplicial complexes (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and editor of  Networks of Networks in Biology (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Research

Research Interests:

 Statistical mechanics of networks

• • Higher-order networks and simplicial complexes
  • Network Topology and Network Geometry
  • Multilayer Networks
  • Network ensembles and their non-equivalence
  • Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks
  • Percolation theory
  • Synchronization
  • Quantum phenomena on networks
  • Critical phenomena on networks
  • Models of social network dynamics
  • Centrality measures

Theoretical physics

• • Networks, and simplicial complexes in theoretical physics
  • Topological Dirac operator 
  • Information theory for coupling network geometry to matter fields
  • Emergence of quantum statistics in network models
  • Complexity and criticality in condensed matter

Biological networks

• • Neural networks and brain dynamics
  • Molecular Networks

Examples of research funding:

EPSRC Network Plus grant for holding the workshop "Physics challenges for Machine Learning and Network Science"

Royal Society  "Large deviation theory of dynamical processes on networks and its application to ecological systems"

Alan Turing Institute  Using network science to quantify the geometry of “missingness"

Simons Foundation grant: "Hypergraphs: Theory and Applications"

Publications

Ginestra Bianconi has published 200 papers and her work has appeared in major scientific journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Communications, PNAS, PRX and Physical Review Letters. She is the author of the books Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function  (Oxford University Press,2018) Higher-order Networks: An introduction to simplicial complexes (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and editor of  Networks of Networks in Biology (Cambridge University Press, 2021)