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Research visit of Lexin Chen
Lexin is visiting Nynke Niersink at Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America. Together, they work on a paper comparing the predictive power of ...

Paper published on the role of dual identifiers in friendship formation.
Lexin Chen’s 1st paper of her dissertation was published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. She shows that dual identifiers typically do not ...
Working paper introducing VINA
A working paper introducing our new software VINA has been made available at SSRN and can be cited as: Nijs, T.; Stark, T.H.; and Boda, Z. (February 10, ...

Research visit of Angelos Dimosiaris
Angelos is visiting Verónica Benet-Martínez at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Together, they work on a paper assessing the effects of actual and ...

Research visit of Anniek Schlette
Anniek Schlette visited Zsofia Boda at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, from October to December 2025. Together, they worked on a new research ...
Research presented at Manchester University
Tobias Stark presented the latest insights from the DUALNETS project, our software VINA, and novel multilayer ERGMs to model cognitive social structures at ...
Mini conference organized at Utrecht University
The DUALNETS team organized the 4th installment of the mini conference of the research network on “Intergroup Relations and Social Networks”. ...

Sunbelt conference participation of team members
The Sunbelt social networks conference is one of the major events of the year for our group. Angelos Dimosiaris, Lexin Chen, Anniek Schlette, and Tom Nijs ...

Conference participation of team members
Anniek Schlette, Lexin Chen, and Angelos Dimosiaris each presented their DUALNETS research at the Migration and Societal Change Conference in Utrecht, ...
Research presented at the University of Bremen
Tobias Stark was invited to present our new software to measure and model network perceptions at the SoDa Lab Seminar of the University of Bremen, Germany.
