Valentina Pansanella
Data Science Ph.D. Student (Cycle 36)
Bio:
Valentina Pansanella was born in 1995 in Perugia, Italy.
In July 2020 she graduated magna cum laude in Data Science and Business Informatics at University of Pisa with a thesis on Opinion Dynamics on evolving networks and higher order structures. She previously graduated (bachelor degree) magna cum laude in business economics at University of Perugia with a thesis on assets pricing.
She's currently a Ph.D. fellow in Data Science in the joint program offered by Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, University of Pisa, IMT Lucca and National Research Council.
Research Interest:
Her main research interests concern social network analysis, in particular on diffusion phenomena over evolving networks and higher order strucures with a focus on opinion formation and diffusion, to understand the increasing opinion polarisation in society.
