Ulrik Brandes
Full Professor
Leads the Social Networks Lab, developing network analysis methods such as centrality measures and graph visualization for social science data.
Ulrik Brandes's lab at ETH Zurich works on graph mining & networks, computational social science and language & society. 47 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly npj Complexity and TMLR. 4 PhD students. 15 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 12/ year
- at T1 venues
- 2%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 15
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 12 papers2025 · T1 1
- 11 papers2024 · T1 0
- 17 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: npj Complexity, TMLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Graph mining & networks14 papers
- Computational social science14 papers
- social12 papers
- social networks5 papers
- Language & society1 paper
Paper list
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20267 papers
- Social NetworksCentrality in directed networks (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsCognitive mechanisms underlying the recall of positive relationships in social networks (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Group Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (GMAP ) at the ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ), Gothenburg, SwedenNetworked Tastes: Homophily for Music Recommendation
- Journal of Graph Algorithms and ApplicationsOn Relations between Neighborhoods of Threshold and Ferrers Digraphs (opens in a new tab)
- Social NetworksUse of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling (opens in a new tab)
- Royal Society Open ScienceUsing Shakespeare to answer psychological questions: complexity and mental representability of character networks (opens in a new tab)
- Computational and Mathematical Organization TheoryVoting for centrality (opens in a new tab)
202512 papers
- TMLR (T1)Adjacency Search Embeddings
- International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS ), Binghamton, NY, USAAn Inverse Problem of Social Influence for Spatial Reference Positions in Soccer (opens in a new tab)
- ChanceBeware the Two-Goal Lead: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Most Dangerous Lead in Soccer (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci ), New Brunswick, NJ, USADecentralized Discourse: Interaction Dynamics on Mastodon (opens in a new tab)
- Social forcesDouble standards in status ascriptions? The role of gender, behaviors, and social networks in status orders among adolescents (opens in a new tab)
- Social Psychology QuarterlyDyadic Isolation in Social Interactions: The Role of Depressive Symptoms (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Sports AnalyticsEfficient computation of tournament winning probabilities (opens in a new tab)
- Social NetworksModeling the duality of content niches and user interactions on online social media platforms (opens in a new tab)
- Network ScienceNetwork polarization: The study of political attitudes and social ties as dynamic multilevel networks (opens in a new tab)
- npj ComplexityShape graphs and the instantaneous inference of tactical positions in soccer (opens in a new tab)
- PoeticsThe dual clustering of tastes and ties: Extending the notion of relational similarity in cultural fields (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingThe principles of tactical formation identification in association football (soccer) — a survey (opens in a new tab)
202411 papers
- International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS ), Istanbul, TurkeyAn SDP Formulation for Minimizing p-th Order Controversy with Unknown Initial Opinions (opens in a new tab)
- The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network ResearchArchaeological Network Science (opens in a new tab)
- Social NetworksCo-evolution of a socio-cognitive scientific network: A case study of citation dynamics among astronomers (opens in a new tab)
- NetzwerkforschungGraphentheorie (opens in a new tab)
- The Journal of Mathematical SociologyInfluence, inertia, and independence: a diffusion model for temporal social networks (opens in a new tab)
- Chaos, Solitons & FractalsMemory-based spatial evolutionary prisoner's dilemma (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Open Source Softwarenetroles: A Java library for role equivalence analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Chaos, Solitons & FractalsNetwork reciprocity and inequality: The role of additional mixing links among social groups (opens in a new tab)
- Policy Studies JournalParticipation in multiple policy venues in governance of Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region: When institutional attributes can make the difference (opens in a new tab)
- PLOS ONEPenalty shoot-outs are tough, but the alternating order is fair (opens in a new tab)
- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ), Buffalo, NY, USATight Sampling in Unbounded Networks (opens in a new tab)
202317 papers
- Journal of Sports AnalyticsA goal-aligned coordinate system for invasion games (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingCoaching legacies: influence propagation through temporal social networks in the Australian Football League (opens in a new tab)
- Chaos, Solitons & FractalsConformity versus credibility: A coupled rumor-belief model (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Reviews BioengineeringHealthcare hackathons as open innovation (opens in a new tab)
- Applied Mathematics and ComputationIs cooperation sustained under increased mixing in evolutionary public goods games on networks? (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Social and Personal RelationshipsModeling social interaction dynamics measured with smartphone sensors: An ambulatory assessment study on social interactions and loneliness (opens in a new tab)
- Network ScienceRandom effects in dynamic network actor models (opens in a new tab)
- Mixing MethodsReading at Scale (opens in a new tab)
- Colección AcademiaRedes Sociales: Teoría, Métodos y Aplicaciones en América Latina
- Network ScienceRelational event models in network science (opens in a new tab)
- Applied Network ScienceRobustness of preferential-attachment graphs (opens in a new tab)
- 16. Fachgruppentagung der Fachgruppe Methoden und Evaluation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (FGME ), Konstanz, Germany Zurich: ETH Zurich, September 11-15, .Shakespeare's Small World and Big Connections: Replicating Stiller, Nettle, & Dunbar (2003)
Where alumni went15 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 5
Also to
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- University of Groningen
- University of Sydney
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