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Overview

José J. Ramasco is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans multiple interconnected domains, focusing on urban systems, complex networks, and data-driven analyses related to mobility and epidemiology.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • The role of complexity for digital twins of cities (2023, Nature Computational Science)
  • The world-wide waste web (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Impact of urban structure on infectious disease spreading (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Migrant mobility flows characterized with digital data (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Effects of mobility and multi-seeding on the propagation of the COVID-19 in Spain (2020, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors in Ramasco's work include José M. Ordovás, Mariano Estéban, Rocío García-Retamero, Beatriz González López-Valcárcel, and Marco Inzitari.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their research crosses several subfields, notably:

  • Transportation
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Building and Construction
  • Modeling and Simulation

Key topics addressed by José J. Ramasco include:

  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Their body of work integrates interdisciplinary methods to study the interaction between urban infrastructure, human behavior, and disease dynamics. The focus on complexity and data-driven approaches is evident across both their theoretical and applied studies, addressing how mobility and spatial structures impact phenomena such as disease spread and urban waste management.

Best Publications

  • Multiscale mobility networks and the spatial spreading of infectious diseases

    Duygu Balcan;Vittoria Colizza;Bruno Gonçalves;Hao Hu

  • Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Filippo Radicchi;José J. Ramasco;Santo Fortunato

  • Human mobility: Models and applications

    Hugo Barbosa;Marc Barthelemy;Gourab Ghoshal;Charlotte R. James

  • Modeling the spatial spread of infectious diseases: The GLobal Epidemic and Mobility computational model

    Duygu Balcan;Bruno Gonçalves;Hao Hu;José J. Ramasco

  • Human mobility networks, travel restrictions, and the global spread of 2009 H1N1 pandemic

    Paolo Bajardi;Chiara Poletto;Jose J. Ramasco;Michele Tizzoni

  • From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities

    Thomas Louail;Maxime Lenormand;Oliva G. Cantu Ros;Miguel Picornell

  • Prominence and Control: The Weighted Rich-Club Effect

    Tore Opsahl;Vittoria Colizza;Pietro Panzarasa;José J. Ramasco

  • Dynamical classes of collective attention in twitter

    Janette Lehmann;Bruno Gonçalves;José J. Ramasco;Ciro Cattuto

  • Self-organization of collaboration networks

    Jose J. Ramasco;Sergei N. Dorogovtsev;Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

  • Social Features of Online Networks: The Strength of Intermediary Ties in Online Social Media

    Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz;José J. Ramasco;Esteban Moro;Esteban Moro;Josep M. Pujol

  • Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent-based versus structured metapopulation models.

    Marco Ajelli;Bruno Gonçalves;Duygu Balcan;Vittoria Colizza

  • Real-time numerical forecast of global epidemic spreading: case study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm

    Michele Tizzoni;Paolo Bajardi;Chiara Poletto;José J. Ramasco

  • From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities

    Thomas Louail;Maxime Lenormand;Oliva García Cantú;Miguel Picornell

  • Systemic delay propagation in the US airport network

    Pablo Fleurquin;José J. Ramasco;Victor M. Eguiluz

  • Human dynamics revealed through Web analytics.

    Bruno Gonçalves;José J. Ramasco

  • Systematic comparison of trip distribution laws and models

    Maxime Lenormand;Aleix Bassolas;José J. Ramasco

  • Dynamics of brain networks in the aesthetic appreciation

    Camilo J. Cela-Conde;Juan García-Prieto;José J. Ramasco;Claudio R. Mirasso

  • Hierarchical organization of urban mobility and its connection with city livability

    Aleix Bassolas;Hugo Barbosa-Filho;Brian Dickinson;Xerxes Dotiwalla

  • Uncovering the spatial structure of mobility networks

    Thomas Louail;Maxime Lenormand;Miguel Picornell;Oliva García Cantú

  • Cross-checking different sources of mobility information.

    Maxime Lenormand;Miguel Picornell;Oliva G. Cantú-Ros;Antònia Tugores

  • Statistical significance of communities in networks.

    Andrea Lancichinetti;Filippo Radicchi;José J. Ramasco

  • Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent based versus structured metapopulation models

    Bruno Gon c calves;Marco Ajelli;Duygu Balcan;Vittoria Colizza

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Vespignani
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Marc Barthelemy
Marc Barthelemy L'Institut de physique théorique
Filippo Menczer
Filippo Menczer Indiana University
Enrique Frias-Martinez
Enrique Frias-Martinez Telefónica (Spain)
Pere Colet
Pere Colet Spanish National Research Council
Alain Barrat
Alain Barrat Centre de Physique Théorique
Filippo Radicchi
Filippo Radicchi Indiana University
Angel Sánchez
Angel Sánchez Carlos III University of Madrid
Alessandro Flammini
Alessandro Flammini Indiana University

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