Associate Professor in Network Science at Leiden University
With the UvA CORPENT group we are organzing a mini-symposium for academics, journalists and ngo’s at SPUI25 in Amsterdam. The event relates to our recent work on corporate ownership networks in which we found that the Netherlands is the largest foreign investment conduit in the world, i.e., the Netherlands is used by multinationals to invest in other countries, and to transfer profits across their corporate structures. Registration is required.
This newly started research project aims to investigate data-driven modelling techniques from both computer science and economics in order to devise new methods, techniques and algorithms for determining official economic statistics. The project is a collaboration between Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS), the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University.
I am involved in organizing the Leiden Networks Day, a one-day symposium about complex network analysis covering topics from network science to complex systems. It’s free and has some great international speakers lined up! Currently, there are over 120 registrations, and space is running out. Register on time!
I wrote a blog post about understanding the corporate elite through network science, focussing on the position of the United Kingdom and London in light of the recent Brexit referendum. It was featured by London School of Economics Business Review. The blog post is based on a paper that we wrote in the CORPNET group.
After almost 10 years of keeping a personal academic webpage in HTML, I decided to start using a CMS. One reason is that there are excellent plugins such as teachPress for keeping for example lists of publications, but the foremost reason is that I tend to do some blogging every now and then, which I can now all combine into one single webpage.