Elena Candellone

About me

Pronouns: she/her. PhD Candidate in Network Science at Utrecht University. Interested in anything that has to do with networks, computational social science, movies, and pizza.

Education

PhD Candidate in Network Science, Utrecht University
2022 — Present
Human Data Science group
Visiting Scholar, Indiana University
2024
AccelNet-MultiNet Fellowship, visiting NaN's lab at Indiana University. [website]
MSc in Physics of Complex Systems, Politecnico di Torino
2020 — 2022
Double Degree at Politecnico di Torino, Universite de Paris Cite, SISSA, ICTP, Paris Sorbonne, Paris Saclay.
BSc in Physics, Università degli studi di Torino
2017 — 2020

Working

Teaching assistant, Utrecht University
2022 — Present
Courses: Advanced Research Methods and Statistics for psychology, Applied Data Analysis and Visualization, Network Science Summer School, Data Wrangling and Data Analysis.
Master Thesis Project - Intern, ISI Foundation
2022
Sentiment analysis of tweets regarding sustainability and health issues related to palm oil. Dynamics of public opinion and analysis of viral events. Comparison with other vegetable oils impact on social media and with surveys. Unravel mechanisms driving the viral events.
Teaching assistant, Università degli studi di Torino
2018 - 2020
Course: Physics Laboratory 1.

Talks

Conferences

ODISSEI 2024 - Utrecht, NL
December 2024
Poster title: Community Detection on Signed Bipartite Networks. [poster]
NetSciNL Symposium 2024 - Eindhoven, NL
October 2024
Talk title: Community Detection on Signed Bipartite Networks.
CCS 2024 - Exeter, UK
September 2024
Conference on Complex Systems, talk title: Understanding the Vegetable Oil Debate and Its Implications for Sustainability through Social Media. [slides]
NetSci 2024 - Quebec, Canada
June 2024
International School and Conference on Network Science, poster title: Community Detection on Signed Bipartite Networks. [poster]
ODISSEI Conference - Utrecht, The Netherlands
November 2023
ODISSEI Conference for Social Sciences in the Netherlands (OCSSN), talk title: Community detection on signed networks: untangling co-voting patterns on social media. [slides]
CompleNet 2023 - Aveiro, Portugal
April 2023
International Conference on Complex Networks, lightning talk. [slides]

Workshops

Young Complexity Researchers Utrecht's Talk - Utrecht, The Netherlands
November 2023
Invited talk. [website]
AccelNet MultiNet Collabathon - Zaragoza, Spain
November 2023
AccelNet MultiNet Collabathon, with a project on coarse graining in networks. [github]
WiNS Collabathon - Boston, USA
May 2023
Women in Network Science Collabathon at Northeastern University. [github]
WWCS 2023 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
February 2023
Winter Workshop on Complex Systems at Institute of Advanced Studies in Amsterdam. [slides]

Organizing

WiNS satellite
June 2025
Women in Network Science satellite of NetSci 2025. [website]
FRIENDS satellite
September 2024 and June 2025
Frameworks, Research and applIcations in complEx Networks with signeD edgeS, a satellite of the Conference on Complex Systems 2024 and NetSci 2025. [website]
CCS Warmup
August 2024
Organized by the yrCSS, a two-day informal event for PhD students and early-stage scientists before the Conference on Complex Systems. [website]
Winter Workshop on Complex Systems 2024
January 2024
The Winter Workshop on Complex Systems is a one-week workshop where young researchers worldwide come together to work on interdisciplinary projects around complex systems. The primary focus of the workshop is for participants to engage into novel research projects. [website]
Women in Network Science Seminars
Fall 2023 - Winter 2024
The Women in Network Science (WiNS) seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar with the aim to promote and showcase research by women and non-binary researchers in network science. [website]
Network Science Summer School
July 2023
Utrecht University Summer School, coordinator: Dr. Javier Garcia-Bernardo. 5-days introductory course on network science. [website]