
Our Team
Our interdisciplinary team consists of researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the University of Florida, and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, specializing in physics, engineering, economics, and anthropology.
Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. External Researcher at BIFI Institute, Zaragoza. Member of the Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC). Co-director of the Laboratorio de Economía del Comportamiento of Fundación COTEC. Research in complex social systems. PI of the MapCDPerNets project.
I am an Economic Anthropologist focused on studying sociocultural phenomena—such as the emergence of ethnic enclaves, migrants’ mobility patterns, informal businesses, and shifts in ethnic identities, among others— through a structural lens, emphasizing the role of social networks in general and personal networks in particular. Within the project, I will identify the traces cultural institutions leave on social structures and the mechanisms that make it possible.
Christopher McCarty is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. McCarty’s research focus is on social network analysis and the analysis of personal networks. He and his colleagues also use social networks to understand what drives scientific collaboration and how interventions can be developed to incentivize new collaborations.
Dr. Angel Cuevas is an associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research interests are data privacy, data for good, energy efficiency, and in general, everything related to Internet measurements. He has published more than 80 papers in major conferences and journals in the area of Computer Science. He has lately engage in multidisciplinary research with social scientists, economics researchers and anthropology researchers.
Alejandro Dinkelberg (UC3M) holds a PhD from the University of Limerick. His research has a quantitative, interdisciplinary focus, lying at the nexus of real-world data, structural components, such as networks, and social entities, such as individuals, groups or societies. In this project, he is exited to discover how culture shapes micro-level structures.
PhD student in Telematics Engineering (UC3M), his research focuses on data extraction and analysis of different online systems for the analysis of various phenomena, including compliance with privacy regulations. In the project, he collaborates in tasks related to the collection and analysis of user data from social networks, specifically from Meta platforms.
My research combines insights from Mathematics, Physics and Social Sciences to study the structure and dynamics of personal relationship networks. Using modeling and experimental approaches, I develop mathematical models and simulations based on real-world data to uncover the mechanisms driving the formation and evolution of our social structures.
Alberto is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) and a member of the Interdisciplinary Group of Complex Systems (GISC). He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a PhD in Mathematical Engineering from UC3M. Alberto is particularly interested in exploring behavioral types in cooperative environments.
I am a professor in the Department of Economics at UC3M. My current research focuses on how the transmission of cultural values within the family affects intergenerational socioeconomic mobility and on using social media data to understand cultural differences between diverse demographic groups.
Francesca Lipari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Analysis and Quantitative Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Her research focuses on behavioral economics, environmental economics, social norms, institutional economics, computational economics, and sustainable development. She is particularly interested in the role of social norms and institutions in shaping economic behavior.
I am a researcher with the GRAFO research group in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I am interested in the theoretical debate between culture and structure, the relational representation of culture, and the cultural mechanisms underlying personal networks.
Ruben is associate professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid and deputy director at IBiDAT (UC3M-Santander Big Data Institute). He is also a co-founder of Hiili S.L., a spin-off from UC3M. Rubén main interests are in the área of Web and Internet measurements, designing and implementing tools to collect data at large scale from digital plataforms.