Research

Working Papers

Walking Through Complex Spatial Patterns of Climate and Conflict-Induced Displacements. David Carranza, Devansh Sharma, Francisco Malveiro, Gustavo Kohlrausch, Jisha Mariyam John, Kaloyan Danovski, Malvina Bozhidarova, Rui Zheng, Sandro SousaarXiv, 2025 Preprint | PDF


Publications

Early career wins and tournament prestige characterize tennis players’ trajectories. Chiara Zappalà, Sandro Sousa, Tiago Cunha, Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Roberta Sinatra — EPJ Data Science, 2024 Journal | PDF

First passage time analysis of spatial mutation patterns reveals evolutionary dynamics of pre-existing resistance in colorectal cancer. M.J. Haughey, A. Bassolas, S. Sousa, A.-M. Baker, T.A. Graham, V. Nicosia, W. Huang — PLOS Comp. Biol., 2023 Journal | PDF

Quantifying ethnic segregation in cities through random walks. S. Sousa, V. Nicosia — Nature Communications, 2022 Journal | PDF | Code | Data

Optimising the mitigation of epidemic spreading through targeted adoption of contact tracing apps. A. Bassolas, A. Santoro, S. Sousa, S. Rognone, V. Nicosia — Phys. Rev. Research, 2022 Journal | PDF

Disproportionate incidence of COVID-19 in African Americans correlates with dynamic segregation. A. Bassolas, S. Sousa, V. Nicosia — J. R. Soc. Interface, 2021 Journal | PDF | Code | Data


White papers

Data study group final report: The national archives, UK. Data Study Group team — The Alan Turing Institute, 2019 Report


Projects

QGIS Segreg

Open source QGIS plugin for computing spatial and non-spatial segregation measures.

QGIS Segreg plugin

GitHub Repository