News

• Oct 2026
  📝 New master's thesis proposal. A new M.Sc. thesis proposal on "Analyzing Incentives in Adoption–Opinion Models" 🌱, supervised with Philipp Grünter: how to allocate limited incentives to promote the adoption of sustainable technologies and behaviors.
• Aug 2026
  🇰🇷 IFAC World Congress 2026. I attended the 23rd IFAC World Congress in Busan, Republic of Korea, where I gave two talks: "On a Co-Evolving Opinion-Leadership Model in Social Networks" and "On a Coupled Adoption-Opinion Framework for Competing Innovations".
• Jul 2026
  🇦🇹 Invited talk at ECMTB 2026. I presented my Ph.D. work "Network effects and behavioral feedback in epidemic models" as an invited minisymposium talk at the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2026), held at the University of Graz, Austria. Thanks to Mattia Sensi and Elisa Paparelli for the invitation to their minisymposium!
• Jul 2026
  🌺 Paper accepted to CDC 2026! I'm excited to share that our paper has been accepted to the 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2026) 🌊, to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii 🏝️!
• Jun 2026
  🎉 Welcome, Jakob! I'm happy to share that Jakob Götberg has started a Digital Futures Summer Internship 2026 in our group, working on the topic Competing Technology Adoption in Networked Systems using Real-World Data.
• May 2026
  🔬 A social experiment... Something is happening — both online and within the walls of DCS. Who will emerge as a leader when the crowd must decide? 👀 Stay tuned.
• Apr 2026
  📄 Papers accepted to IFAC! Our conference papers have been accepted to IFAC 2026 🎉, including "On a Co-evolving Opinion-Leadership Model in Social Networks" (with Lorenzo Zino, Karl H. Johansson, Angela Fontan) and "On a Coupled Adoption-Opinion Framework for Competing Innovations" (with Chiara Ravazzi, Fabrizio Dabbene, Karl H. Johansson, Angela Fontan).
• Mar 2026
  🎓 Prepare to Lead! I'm very excited to attend the online 🌐 workshop "Prepare to Lead! Leadership Training for a Successful Academic Career" on March 19–20, 2026, organized by the EU-TALENT Center.
• Mar 2026
  🇸🇪 Digital Futures Conference. Participating in the Digital Futures Young Scientist Conference 2026 on March 12, 2026, where I present a poster on our recent work on "On Leadership Emergence in Opinion Dynamics on Social Networks".
• Dec 2025
  🇧🇷 CDC presentation. I'm excited to attend the CDC 2025 in Rio de Janeiro 🌴 from December 9 to 12, presenting "Behavioral-Feedback SIR Epidemic Model" and "Model Predictive Control for Coupled Adoption-Opinion Dynamics".
• Sep 2025
  📝 Master's thesis proposal. Together with Dr. Pelin Sekercioglu, I am proposing a master's thesis on "Analyzing Opinion Spreading 🗣️ in Dynamic Signed Social Networks Using Real-World Data."
• Sep 2025
  🇸🇪 Starting at KTH! I am very excited to start my postdoctoral researcher position in the Department of Decision and Control Systems, KTH 🚀, and to collaborate with Prof. Angela Fontan and Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson.
• Sep 2025
  🎓 PhD defense. I am happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis 🥳 "Network effects and behavioral feedback in epidemic models."
• Jul 2025
  📄 Papers accepted to CDC! Our conference papers have been accepted to CDC 2025 🎉.
• Jul 2025
  🇯🇵 Visiting at Kyushu University. I've visited Yoshio Ebihara's research group at Ito Campus, Kyushu University, Fukuoka. I gave a talk during the RACOT seminar with other ASPIRE-related researchers.
• Jun–Jul 2025
  🇯🇵 Visiting at UTokyo. I've visited Hideaki Ishii's lab at the University of Tokyo 🗼 for one month, as part of the ASPIRE program.
• Jun 2025
  🇸🇪 Visiting at KTH. I've visited Angela Fontan at EECS, KTH ✈️, and attended Reglermöte 2025.
• May 2025
  🇺🇸 SIAM conference at Denver. I've attended and presented my recent work at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 🏔️.