News
Matus Medo awarded for SNF research grant
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) has awarded Matus Medo with a research grant for the project Improved tools for fitting mutational signatures. The project aims to study mutational signatures which are distinct patterns of mutations in the genome, footprints of biological processes or past exposures to specific carcinogens. The official start is on May 1, 2025.
Change of Leadership
In keeping with the center’s practice of rotating leadership among its founding members, a management transition is scheduled for 2025: Matus Medo will succeed Berno Buechel as Director."
Board Meeting
On February 13th, 2025, the Center members Prof. Yi-Cheng Zhang, Prof. Berno Büchel, Prof. Claudio Tessone and Dr. Matus Medo met to discuss the development of the centre and the next steps.
Research visitor
Yinzuo Zhou is visiting for one year at the Chair of Microeconomics and at the Center. Her research interests are nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.
SNF Project Signed Networks
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) has awarded Prof. Berno Buechel with a research grant for the project Signed Networks: Strategic Network Formation and Centrality. The core research team consists of Berno Buechel (Principal Investigator), Tim Hellmann (Project Partner), and Qingchao Zeng (Postdoctoral Researcher). The official start is on February 1, 2025.
Internal workshop
Center Members and Researchers meet in Zurich
on September, 14th, 2023, for research presentations and informal discussion.
The Board of Trustees of the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe) has elected Prof. Yi-Cheng Zhang to become member of the academy
Winter School 2023 in Data Analytics and Machine Learning
February 6 - 17, 2023
NEW Master in Data Analytics and Economics
NEW book forthcoming
Matchmakers and Markets
of Prof. Yi-Cheng Zhang
published on December 2019, now already pre-ordering.
LSE Business Review, 16.01.2019
“If I can do it, so can you! Peer effects on perseverance” (Berno Büchel, Lydia Mechtenberg)
Dies academicus 2018
University of Fribourg, November 15, 2018
Conference
Prof. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux "Data Tsunami"
Scientific cooperation between Switzerland and China
The Federal Council Johann Schneider-Ammann and a Swiss delegation of 50 people were able to visit on September 2018 the Beijing Institute of Technology and different companies.
Interview with Prof. Philippe Cudre-Mauroux as a Member of the Swiss delegation.
3rd THE PIIK Swiss Symposium on Network Science 02.10.2018 at the University of Zurich
