Veni Grant for Raffaella Mulas

Raffaella Mulas has been awarded a prestigious veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for her project:

Graphs and Hypergraphs: from Combinatorics to Network Science and back
Graphs and hypergraphs have been challenging combinatorialists since 1736 and 1931, respectively. Moreover, in the past two decades, scientists have been rapidly finding applications of graphs which has led to the emergence of network science as its own discipline, where hypergraphs are gaining increasing attention. Nevertheless, combinatorialists and network scientists often use distinct languages and methodologies. Mathematician Raffaella Mulas' goal is to exploit her interdisciplinary profile to work on a braid where combinatorics, spectral theory and applications (to areas such as network science and machine learning) will inspire each other and will advance together in a unified manner rather than independently.