News

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June 27, 2025

Zoltán Elekes gave a lecture at the 2025 edition of the Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks.

Research

June 20, 2025

Johannes Wachs and coauthors have new results on the use and spread of generative AI in software.

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June 12, 2025

Balázs Lengyel gave a lecture at Politecnico di Milano at summer school of the Italian Association of Regional Science.

Highlight

June 9, 2025

Dima Yankova, and co-authors Carolin Nast, Oscar Llopis, and Pablo D’Este, recently contributed to the LSE Impact Blog with a post entitled “Does collaboration outside academia lead to greater scientific impact?" The new blog piece summarises the main findings of their recent paper in Technovation (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103112)

Workshop

May 26, 2025

Dima Yankova was the organizer of the "Pathways to Future Regional Development" workshop that was hosted by WIFO, Austria on May 20, 2025. Keynote speakers of the workshop were Prof. Riccardo Crescenzi (LSE) and Ljubica Nedelkoska (Complexity Science Hub Vienna).

May 21, 2025

Listen to the radio interview with Sándor Juhász on urban highways and social connections and read the interview with Balázs Lengyel on 15-minute cities.

Award

May 20, 2025

Eszter Kalló and Gergő Magyar have participated in the Network and Data Science section of the Corvinus Student Competition and managed to get into OTDK national final. Gergő was awarded the first prize in the section.

Research grant

May 14, 2025

Dima Yankova has been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project FPrevision4cohesion. Under the supervision of Balázs Lengyel, Dima will investigate how competitive EU research funding impacts the structure of the European scientific network, with a focus on regional knowledge inequalities by applying novel network science methods and counterfactual analysis.

Publication

May 12, 2025

A new article published in Cities demonstrates that networks of migration across towns follow a hierarchy of local clusters around migration hubs, which can't be explained by network science models.

Award

May 7, 2025

Using a spatiotemporal model, Imre analyzed how small fuel brands with 1–2 stations spatially interact with competitors regarding pricing, separating the effect by competitor type and showing how the effect unfolds as a function of distance.

Publication

April 29, 2025

A new study published in Nature Communications from Johannes Wachs and Luca Gallo reveals a profound connection between the dynamics of leadership and the success trajectory in teams of open source software.

Highlight

April 17, 2025

Zoltán talks about how policymakers can foster local labor market stability.