Federica Bianchi

Federica Bianchi is a Researcher at the Institute of Computing at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), where she contributes to the SNSF-funded project on 'The Dynamics of Innovation: Latent Space Modelling of Patent Citations'. She holds a PhD in Economics from USI (2019) and an MSc in Economics from the University of Pavia. Previously, she was an Early Postdoc.Mobility research affiliate at the University of Glasgow (2019–2020), focusing on financial markets as evolving relational systems.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, USI (2019)
• MSc in Economics, University of Pavia

Research Interests: Federica's work centers on social networks in economic systems, particularly their role in coordinating activities in financial markets and innovation dynamics. She develops methodological tools to analyze relational structures in continuous time, such as relational event modeling. Her recent focus on patent citations explores innovation as evolving in latent spaces, while earlier work examined micro-relational structures in financial markets.

Articles: Her recent publications span pandemic impacts on social networks in public health, financial market dynamics, and methodological advancements in network analysis. Key themes include non-linear effects in interbank systems and the translation of network ties into event-based frameworks.

Affiliations: Federica is affiliated with the Social Network Analysis Research Center (SoNAR-C) and has collaborated on projects funded by SNSF and the University of Glasgow. She teaches quantitative methods for social sciences and contributes to interdisciplinary research on relational systems.