Hi! I’m Arianna
PhD candidate in Complex Networks
at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

I try to connect the dots
between physics, networks
and social sciences.

Explore the research → Beyond research →

ABOUT

I’m a simple social animal: I like to talk. About
science, politics, real-life problems, or the last
interesting article you read.

Curiosity is what drives me; but being
challenged is what makes me stick with a
problem until I get to an understanding.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Community detection and population heterogeneity in networks of psychometric subjects

When many people answer the same questionnaire, are they really one homogeneous population — or are there hidden subgroups responding in systematically different ways?

arXiv:2605.29749

Inference of generalised spin models for questionnaires

Borrowing the mathematics physicists use for interacting magnetic spins, we model how the answers to different questionnaire items influence one another.

arXiv:2605.29739

Information-theoretic approaches to item selection in survey design

Long questionnaires are tiring and often redundant. Using information theory, we ask which items actually carry independent information and which can be dropped.

in progress

List of talks and publications →