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.
Doctor of Science (Technology), Engineering Physics, Aalto-yliopisto
Award Date: 10 Oct 2012
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 › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Kivelä, M., Urena Carrion, J., Chen, T. & Xia, Y.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Kivelä, M., Mäkelä, K. & Pulkkinen, T.
01/04/2017 → 31/08/2021
Project: Academy of Finland: Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles
Darst, R., Badie Modiri, A., Triana Hoyos, A., Saramäki, J., Kivelä, M. & Kujala, R.
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2017
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Monsivais-Velazquez, D., Kaski, K., Kivelä, M., Bhattacharya, K., Asikainen, A. & Ghosh, A.
01/05/2015 → 31/12/2017
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Mikko Kivelä (Member)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of a scientific or program committee of a conference or seminar
Mikko Kivelä (Member)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of a scientific or program committee of a conference or seminar
Mikko Kivelä (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Membership of an editorial board
Mikko Kivelä (Member)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of a scientific or program committee of a conference or seminar
Mikko Kivelä (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
25/01/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Lasse Leskelä, Tapio Ala-Nissilä & Mikko Kivelä
20/11/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Lasse Leskelä, Mikko Kivelä & Tapio Ala-Nissilä
14/11/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
07/07/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance