Research Center Networks and Complexity

Individuals, teams, organizations, markets, technologies, and infrastructures are part of increasingly interconnected systems, in which collective phenomena emerge from a multitude of relationships and interdependencies. The Research Center Networks and Complexity investigates the mechanisms governing these systems, exploring the interplay between the structure of interactions, the dynamics of the system, and its collective behavior.

The Center's research ranges from the study of the fundamental principles governing the structure and dynamics of complex networks and the emergence of collective phenomena to large-scale data analysis and the investigation of processes shaping society and the economy. These include the spread of information, behaviors, and social norms, group and team dynamics, cooperation and conflict, collective intelligence and adaptation, innovation processes, the evolution of economic and financial systems, cities and urban systems, and collective dynamics and performance in sports.

The Center brings together expertise in statistical physics and complexity science, mathematical modeling, computer science, and statistics, alongside perspectives from behavioral economics and quantitative social sciences, within an inherently interdisciplinary environment. Its aim is to identify common principles across seemingly disparate domains and develop new conceptual frameworks for understanding the phenomena that shape the contemporary world.