Research output per year
Research output per year
Aalto SCI Computer Science Konemiehentie 2
Research activity per year
I am a network scientist working as an assistant professor at the Aalto University, where I also obtained my doctoral degree. Before coming back to Aalto I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford.
My research area is the relatively new field of network science (or complex networks). This means that I'm interested in complex systems with a large number of elements that are interacting with each other in some non-trivial way and possibly leading to some emergent phenomena. Social systems are a good example: they consist of multiple elements (people) that are interacting with each other (social relationships) and lead to some very complex emergent behaviour (social groups, societies, conflicts, etc.). Other such complex systems include transportation systems, gene-regulatory systems in cells, ecological systems and many more. I see all of these systems as networks that can be studied with the similar sets of tools and theories.
All of the above-mentioned systems, and many others, have been studied extensively using networks where the nodes (people, cities, genes, ...) are either connected by a pairwise link or not (friendship, road, regulatory relationship). This approach has been extremely successful. However, this abstraction discards a lot of important information about the system. For example, social networks have multiple types of relationships of varying strengths and they are inherently dynamic. Including such information greatly increases our understanding of these systems and processes on them, for example, how disease spreads on social networks. These types of more realistic networks are the focus point of my research.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Doctoral degree, Engineering and Technology, Aalto University
Award Date: 10 Oct 2012
Master's degree, Engineering and Technology, Helsinki University of Technology
Award Date: 27 Jan 2009
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Kivelä, M., Iannucci, L. & Faqeeh, A.
01/01/2023 → 31/12/2025
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Kivelä, M., Faqeeh, A., Badie Modiri, A. & Matakos, A.
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2025
Project: Academy of Finland: Strategic research funding
Kivelä, M., Salloum, A. & Nurmi, T.
01/09/2022 → 31/12/2025
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Kivelä, M., Yuan, Y. & Urena Carrion, J.
01/09/2022 → 31/08/2027
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Kivelä, M., Shubin, M., Molla, J. & Heydari, S.
15/09/2020 → 01/09/2023
Project: Other external funding: Other foreign funding
Ranganathan, S. (Creator), Kivelä, M. (Contributor) & Kanniainen, J. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 1 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5b8n621, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.5b8n621
Dataset
Hric, D. (Creator), Kaski, K. (Creator) & Kivelä, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 2018
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1255836, https://zenodo.org/api/records/1255837
Dataset
Kivelä, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 25 Mar 2020
Dataset
Badie Modiri, A. (Creator), Karimi Rizi, A. (Creator), Karsai, M. (Creator) & Kivelä, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 2021
Dataset: Software or code
Takayuki Hiraoka (Speaker), Abbas Karimi Rizi (Contributor), Mikko Kivelä (Contributor) & Jari Saramäki (Contributor)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Jari Saramäki (Speaker), Mikko Kivelä (Speaker) & Talayeh Aledavood (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited academic talk
Takayuki Hiraoka (Speaker), Mikko Kivelä (Contributor) & Jari Saramäki (Contributor)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Takayuki Hiraoka (Speaker), Mikko Kivelä (Contributor) & Jari Saramäki (Contributor)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Mikko Kivelä (Member)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of a scientific or program committee of a conference or seminar
Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Mikko Kivelä & Lasse Leskelä
30/05/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Mikko Kivelä & Lasse Leskelä
28/05/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Mikko Kivelä & Lasse Leskelä
27/05/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Mikko Kivelä & Lasse Leskelä
27/05/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
25/01/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance