Dr Pietro Panzarasa
Senior Lecturer in Organisational Theory and Behaviour
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 6984
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, Room 4.34
Email: p.panzarasa@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Pietro’s research is broadly concerned with the interdisciplinary study of complex networks, and focuses primarily on the structure and dynamics of social interaction. The general goal of his work is to better understand the antecedents, structure, functioning, and implications of complex large-scale networks, in a variety of empirical domains, including scientific collaboration, online communication, technological and transportation systems. Ongoing projects investigate: communities and patterns of scientific collaborations in co-authorship networks; the rich-club effect in mobility and transportation networks; geographic clustering and network development of innovative activities in emerging markets; scaling phenomena and long-memory processes in online communication; the effects of online social interaction on medical learning and practice; the effects of homophily and cognitive similarity on the structure and dynamics of online communities; and the combined effects of inter-disciplinarity, social cohesion, and brokerage on innovation and knowledge creation.
Publications:
Journal Articles:
T.S. Evans, R. Lambiotte, and P. Panzarasa. (2011). Community structure and patterns of scientific collaboration in Business and Management, Scientometrics, forthcoming.
R. Lambiotte, P. Panzarasa. (2009) Communities, knowledge creation, and information diffusion, Journal of Informetrics, 3(3): 180-190.
T. Opsahl, P. Panzarasa (2009) Clustering in weighted networks, Social Networks, 31: 155-163
P. Panzarasa, T. Opsahl, K. M. Carley (2009) Patterns and dynamics of users' behavior and interaction: Network analysis of an online community, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(5): 911-932
J.J. Ramasco, V. Colizza, P. Panzarasa (2009), Using the weighted rich-club coefficient to explore traffic organization in mobility networks, Complex-2009 Best Paper Proceedings, and Book Series Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Volume 4, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 680-692.
T. Opsahl, V. Colizza, P. Panzarasa, J.J.Ramasco. (2008) Prominence and control: The weighted rich-club effect, Physical Review Letters, 101 (168702)
P. Panzarasa, T. Opsahl. (2008) Patterns of scientific collaboration in Business and Management: The effects of network structure and interdisciplinarity on research performance, Network Science (NetSci 2008) Proceedings (coverage received in: J. Whitfield (2008). Group theory, Nature, 455, 720-723)
P. Panzarasa, N. Jennings. (2002) Social Influence, Negotiation and Cognition, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 10(5-7), ISSN: 1569-190X.
P. Panzarasa, N. Jennings, T. Norman. (2002) Formalizing Collaborative Decision-Making and Practical Reasoning in Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Logic and Computation, 12(1): 55-117, ISSN: 0955-792X.
P. Panzarasa, N. Jennings, T. Norman. (2001) Social Mental Shaping: Modelling the Impact of Sociality on the Mental States of Autonomous Agents, Computational Intelligence, 17(4): 738-782, ISSN: 0824-7935.
P. Panzarasa, N. Jennings, T. Norman. (2001) Going Public and the Sale of Shares with Heterogeneous Investors: Agent-Based Computational Modelling and Computer Simulations, Group Decision and Negotiation, 10(5): 423-470, ISSN: 0926-2644.
P. Panzarasa, N.R. Jennings., (2001) Negotiation and joint commitments in multi-agent systems, Sozionik Aktuell, 3: 65-81.
Other Publications:
P. Panzarasa and B. Kujawski. (2011). Bursts, long-range correlations and scaling behaviour in online communication, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS ’11), University of Vienna (Austria).
P. Panzarasa, P. Expert, G. Petri, K. Christensen, H.J. Jensen. (2011). Burstiness, long-range correlations, and communities in cognitive networks, Proceedings of the International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci'11), Budapest, Hungary.
P. Panzarasa, R. Lambiotte and T. Evans. (2010). Communities and patterns of scientific collaboration: Evidence from a co-authorship network in Business and Management, Proceedings of the International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci'10), Boston, MA.
P. Panzarasa and B. Kujawski. (2010). Cognitive similarity and network dynamics, Proceedings of the Workshop on Processes on Networks, Hunting for Universality in Social, Economic, and Biological Networks, Institute for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna.
P. Panzarasa and B. Kujawski. (2010), Network structure and dynamics of online communication and scientific collaboration, Proceedings of the Extreme Events Mini Workshop, Measuring and Analysis of Dynamics of Opinions, Feelings and Emotions: Strategies, Research Questions and Ideas, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg (Austria).
P. Panzarasa. (2009). The effects of network structure and research specialties on scientific performance: Evidence from a collaborative network in Business and Management, Proceedings of the workshop on Modelling Science: Understanding, forecasting, and communicating the science system”. Rathenau Instituut, Amsterdam.
P. Panzarasa, B. Kujawski. (2009) Cognitive similarity, tie creation, and tie strength: Network and content analysis of an online forum, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS ’09).
P. Panzarasa, B. Kujawski. (2009) Cognitive similarity and patterns of communication: Network and content analysis of an online forum, Network Science (NetSci'09) Proceedings.
T. Opsahl, P. Panzarasa. (2008) Clustering in weighted networks, Network Science (NetSci'08) Proceedings
T. Opsahl, P. Panzarasa, M. Prevezer. (2009) Clusters and social networks: The role of geographical distance in the evolution of inventor networks in China, DRUID 2009.
P. Panzarasa, T. Opsahl. (2007), Scientific collaborations in Business and Management: The effects of network structure on research performance, Academyof ManagementProceedings.
P. Panzarasa, T. Opsahl. (2007) The structure of the coauthorship network in Business and Management, American Sociological Association, Conference Proceedings
P. Panzarasa, N. R. Jennings, in R. Sun (ed.), (2006) Collective Cognition and Emergence in Multi-Agent Systems,
Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 401-408
M. Faccioni, P. Panzarasa. (2006) Knowledge transfer within affiliation networks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Engineering Management Conference
P. Panzarasa, T. Opsahl. (2006) The network structure and evolution of online communication, Proceedings of European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS ’06)
P. Panzarasa, K. M. Carley. (2005) An emergence-based perspective on organizational culture, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science
Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:
Other affiliations:
Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Complexity and Networks Programme), Imperial College London.
Recent grants:
“The tangled market model: A complex networks approach”. Funded by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (2011-2012).
“A Complex Network Study of Online Communication and Medical Training: Evidence from London Specialty Schools”. Funded by Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry (2010-).
“E-learning for healthcare”. Funded by North East Thames Foundation School (2008-).
British Conference Grant. Funded by the British Academy (2007).
Awards:
Nominated for the Drapers’ Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (QM). (2008 and 2010)
Winner of the Queen Mary Contribution Reward Scheme award for academic excellence (2009)
Professional activities:
Grant evaluator and rapporteur for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Grant evaluator for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Council for the Physical Sciences).
Editorial board member of the Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (Area: “Computational economics, markets and systems”).
Editorial board member of Studi Organizzativi.
Organiser and Programme Committee member of the UK Social Network Conference.
Undergraduate teaching:
Courses delivered:
BUS206: Coordination and Social Dynamics
BUS311: Social Networks
Postgraduate teaching:
PhD 2nd Supervisor:
Mr. Li Jian