Homophily and social influence as mechanisms of loneliness clustering in social networks

        Bas Châtel, Rick Quax, Vitor Vasconcelos, and colleagues published a study in Scientific Reports that challenges the common view of loneliness as a purely individual experience, instead viewing it as a network-driven social phenomenon....
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Joeri van de Sande won WSAA Best Poster Award

For his work on data fitting methods for orthostatic hypotension models. The prize includes a travel grant, enabling him to attend the prestigious EFAS Congress (European Federation of Autonomic Societies). Joeri’s research aims to support clinicians by developing...
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Income inequality in the uptake of environmentally friendly products

Martina Maglicic and Vítor V. Vasconcelos published a paper in iScience! They examined how income inequality influences the adoption of environmentally friendly products, using analytical and agent-based models. In their study,
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Best IHLCN Innovation Day pitch award in innovative cardiothoracic research won by Vera Zut!

How to reduce the long term complications -like kidney disfunction and reduced exercise ability- after Fontan completion surgery? In the TOPGraft project, we aim to address this challenge by developing an expandable graft that accommodates somatic growth, helping to...
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The impact of clot permeability on platelet fluxes toward its surface

Niksa Mohammadi Bagheri, Gábor Závodszky & Alfons Hoekstra have published a new paper in Plos One on the flow dynamics of porous blood clots.

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Group Mission

We live in a highly connected and strongly coupled world, and are surrounded by a large diversity of complex systems. All these systems have one thing in common: they process information. We aim to understand this information processing in such dynamic multi-level complex systems.

 

“Nature is a Complex System that processes information. Computational Science aims to make the complexity of those systems tractable.”