New project on Population Scale Social Network Analysis (POPNET)
In the coming 5 years, Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will work together on a project with the aim of doing population scale social network analysis. This entails not only cutting edge computational social […]
New projecting on Predicting Crime in Dark Web Forum Networks
A new 2-year project on the prediction will start on September 1, 2020 and is concerned with predicting crime from dark web forum networks. The project is a collaboration between the Dutch National Police as part of the “Politie en […]
4th Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks at TheWebConf 2020 in Taiwan
The 4th International workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (MAISoN 2020) takes place on April 20 and is co-located with The Web Conference 2020 (formerly WWW), which takes place from April 20 to 24, 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan. […]
MISDOOM Symposium on Misinformation in Online Media in Leiden in April 2020
The 2nd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM), discussing topics such as fake news, social bots, disinformation, filter bubbles, virality and deep fake will take place in Leiden from April 20-22, 2020. It aims to bring […]
IC²S² 2019 – 4 days, 480 participants, 40 countries and a highly interdisciplinary audience
The 5th edition of IC²S² took place from July 17 to 20, 2019 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Over 480 participants from 40 countries attended the conference, tutorials and accompanying events, such as a warmup event, job fair […]

About me
I am an assistant professor at LIACS, the computer science department of Leiden University, where I lead the Leiden Computational Network Science Lab, a research group working on methods and algorithms for knowledge discovery from (social) network data. My research interest is network science (also called social network analysis or complex networks).
Since 2020, I am the academic co-director of the Dutch POPNET research platform for population-scale social network analysis. Furthermore, I am a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), in particular working with the CORPNET computational social science research group.
I supervise bachelor, master and PhD students, and teach courses on data science, process mining, competitive programming and social network analysis.
Contact information
Leiden
Snellius building, Room 157b
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 7143
E-mail: f.w.takes@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
Amsterdam
Roeterseiland campus, Room B9.00
Phone: +31 (0)20 525 7385
E-mail: takes@uva.nl