Professor Ginestra Bianconi

Profile

Ginestra Bianconi is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Queen Mary University of London. She is member or the European Academy of Sciences. Currently she is Chief Editor of JPhys Complexity, Editor of PloSOne, and Scientific Reports. Awards: APS Fellow, Network Science Fellow and chair Franqui 2023.

Her research activity on Statistical Mechanics and Network Science includes Network Theory and its interdisciplinary applications. She has formulated the Bianconi-Barabasi model that displays the Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks. She has formulated the statistical mechanics of  network ensembles and she has proven their non-equivalence. She has made important contributions on the study of critical phenomena on networks.

Recently she is very active on characterizing  the interplay between geometry, topology  and dynamics on complex networks and on generalized network structures such as multilayer networks and simplicial complexes.  She  is author of two books 'Multilayer networks: structure and function' (Oxford University Press,2018)  'Higher-order networks-An introduction to simplicial complexes' (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

In  2025 she started to work on gravity proposing the quantum relative entropy as the action for gravity (G. Bianconi, Gravity from entropy. Physical Review D. 2025 Mar 15;111(6):066001).

Research

Research Interests:

Statistical mechanics, Theoretical Physics, Network Theory, Topology, Geometry and Dynamical Systems

Examples of research funding:

EPSRC Network Plus grant for holding the workshop "Physics challenges for Machine Learning and Network Science"

Royal Society  "Large deviation theory of dynamical processes on networks and its application to ecological systems"

Alan Turing Institute  Using network science to quantify the geometry of “missingness"

Simons Foundation grant: "Hypergraphs: Theory and Applications"

Publications

Ginestra Bianconi has published more than 200 papers and her work has appeared in major scientific journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, PNAS, PRX and Physical Review Letters. She is the author of the books Multilayer Networks: Structure and Function  (Oxford University Press,2018) Higher-order Networks: An introduction to simplicial complexes (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and editor of  Networks of Networks in Biology (Cambridge University Press, 2021)