Plenary speakers
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University, USA)
Alessandro Vespignani is the director of the Network Science Institute and Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences at Northeastern University. Vespignani is elected fellow of the American Physical Society, member of the Academy of Europe, and fellow of the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is serving in the board/leadership of a variety of professional associations and journals and the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation. His research interests include complex systems and networks, and the data-driven computational modeling of epidemics.
Stefan Hild (Maastricht University)
Stefan Hild is Professor of Experimental Physics at the Faculty of Science and Egineering of Maastricht University. He previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), the University of Birmingham and the University of Glasgow. He is the project leader of the ETpathfinder project and has contributed many ideas and designs to the Einstein Telescope. Hild has been active in gravitational wave research for the past 20 years and he has been part of the international team which discovered gravitational waves from two colliding black holes in 2015.
Nadia Dominici (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Nadia Dominici is an associate professor at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Science at Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam where she works on the interplay between brain and muscular activity underlying walking in children, as well as on the biomechanics of human locomotion supported by an ERC Starting Grant and NWO Vidi and Aspasia Grants. After a master diploma in Physics, and a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Rome she has held research positions at the Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome, at the University of Zürich, and EPFL in Lausanne.
