People
Daniela Paolotti
Senior Research Scientist
Senior Research Scientist
Fields Of StudyComputational and Digital Epidemiology, Data Science for Social Impact
Daniela Paolotti is a Senior Research Scientist at ISI Foundation, in Turin, Italy. She is part of the Data Science for Social Impact Research Area. She has a background in Physics (Bsc, MSc, Ph.D.). Her work has a strong interdisciplinary approach. For more than ten years, she has been working on applying tools from complex systems and networks science, applied mathematics, computer science, data science, behavioral sciences to study disease spreading from an epidemiological as well as social point of view. Since 2008, Daniela has been developing and coordinating a Europe-wide network of Web-based platforms for participatory surveillance of Influenza-like Illness.
Publications
Towards a global impact-based forecasting model for tropical cyclones
Mersedeh Kooshki Forooshani, Marc van den Homberg, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova, Leonardo Milano, Pauline Ndirangu, Daniela Paolotti, Aklilu Teklesadik, Monica L. Turner
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences24(1), 309–329 (2024)
Research ethics and artificial intelligence for global health: perspectives from the global forum on bioethics in research
James Shaw, Joseph Ali, Caesar A. Atuire, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Armando Guio Español, Judy Wawira Gichoya, Adrienne Hunt, Daudi Jjingo, Katherine Littler, Daniela Paolotti, Effy Vayena
BMC Medical Ethics25, 46 (2024)
Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Michele Tizzani
Scientific Reports 14, 4397 (2024)
Strengths and limitations of relative wealth indices derived from big data in Indonesia
Daniele Sartirano, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ciro Cattuto, Enrique Delamónica, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Anthony Mockler, Daniela Paolotti, Rossano Schifanella
Frontiers in Big Data6, 1054156 (2023)
Reflections On Epidemiological Modeling To Inform Policy During The COVID-19 Pandemic In Western Europe, 2020–23
Mark Jit, Kylie Ainslie, Christian Althaus, Constantino Caetano, Vittoria Colizza, Daniela Paolotti, Philippe Beutels, Lander Willem, John Edmunds, Baltazar Nunes, Sònia Namorado, Christel Faes, Nicola Low, Jacco Wallinga, Niel Hens
Health Affairs42, 12, (2023)
Participatory Surveillance for COVID-19 Trend Detection in Brazil: Cross-sectional Study
Salome Wittwer, Daniela Paolotti, Guilherme Lichand, Onicio Leal Neto
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance9, e44517 (2023)
On the forecastability of food insecurity
Pietro Foini, Michele Tizzoni, Giulia Martini, Daniela Paolotti, Elisa Omodei
Scientific Reports13, 2793 (2023)
Monitoring Gender Gaps via LinkedIn Advertising Estimates: the case study of Italy
Margherita Bertè, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
WebSci '23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 229–238 (2023)
Impact of tiered measures on social contact and mixing patterns of in Italy during the second wave of COVID-19
Michele Tizzani, Alessandro De Gaetano, Christopher I. Jarvis, Amy Gimma, Kerry Wong, W. John Edmunds, Philippe Beutels, Niel Hens, Pietro Coletti, Daniela Paolotti
BMC Public Health23, 906 (2023)
Impact of food-related conflicts on self-reported food insecurity
Stefania Fiandrino, Caitriona Dowd, Giulia Martini, Yelena Mejova, Elisa Omodei , Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzani
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems7, 1239992 (2023)
Global Misinformation Spillovers in the Vaccination Debate Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multilingual Twitter Study
Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzani, Michele Starnini
JMIR Infodemiology3:e44714, (2023)
From Ukraine to the World: Using LinkedIn Data to Monitor Professional Migration from Ukraine
Margherita Bertè, Daniela Paolotti, Kyriaki Kalimeri
GoodIT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good 213–222 (2023)
Enabling Multicentric Participatory Disease Surveillance for Global Health Enhancement: Viewpoint on Global Flu View
Onicio Leal Neto, Daniela Paolotti, Craig Dalton, Sandra Carlson, Patipat Susumpow, Matt Parker, Polowat Phetra, Eric H Y Lau, Vittoria Colizza, Albert Jan van Hoek, Charlotte Kjelsø, John S. Brownstein, Marc S Smolinski
JMIR Public Health Surveillance9, e46644 (2023)
Echo Chambers of Vaccination Hesitancy Discussion on Social Media during COVID-19 Pandemic
Yelena Mejova, Giuseppe Crupi, Jacopo Lenti, Michele Tizzani, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti, André Panisson
Proceedings: XX ISA World Congress of Sociology - Melbourne, Australia June 25-July 1, 2023224.3, (2023)
Behavioral Changes Associated With COVID-19 Vaccination: Cross-National Online Survey
Alessandro De Gaetano, Paolo Bajardi, Nicolò Gozzi, Nicola Perra, Daniela Perrotta, Daniela Paolotti
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)25, e47563 (2023)
Attitudes towards booster, testing and isolation, and their impact on COVID-19 response in winter 2022/2023 in France, Belgium, and Italy: a cross-sectional survey and modelling study
Giulia de Meijere, Eugenio Valdano, Claudio Castellano, Marion Debin, Charly Kengne-Kuetche, Clément Turbelin, Harold Noël, Joshua S. Weitz, Daniela Paolotti, Lisa Hermans, Niel Hens, Vittoria Colizza
The Lancet Regional Health - Europe28, 100614 (2023)
Staying Strong, But For How Long? Mental Health During COVID-19 in Italy
Francesca Marazzi, Andrea Piano Mortari, Federico Belotti, Giuseppe Carrà, Ciro Cattuto, Joanna Kopinska, Daniela Paolotti, Vincenzo Atella
CEIS - Research Papers20(4), 541 (2022)
Psychotropic drug purchases during the COVID‑19 pandemic in Italy and their relationship with mobility restrictions
Francesca Marazzi, Andrea Piano Mortari, Federico Belotti, Giuseppe Carrà, Ciro Cattuto, Joanna Kopinska, Daniela Paolotti, Vincenzo Atella
Scientific Reports12, 19336 (2022)
Measuring user engagement with low credibility media sources in a controversial online debate
Salvatore Vilella, Alfonso Semeraro, Daniela Paolotti, Giancarlo Ruffo
EPJ Data Science11(29), (2022)
Echoes through Time: Evolution of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccination Debate
Giuseppe Crupi, Yelena Mejova, Michele Tizzani, Daniela Paolotti, André Panisson
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media16(1), 102-113 (2022)
Complex Systems for the Most Vulnerable
Elisa Omodei , Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni
Journal of Physics: Complexity3(2), (2022)
Comparing Sources of Mobility for Modelling the Epidemic Spread of Zika Virus in Colombia
Daniela Perrotta, Enrique Frias-Martinez, Ana Pastore Y Piontti, Qian Zhang, Miguel Luengo-Oroz, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Alessandro Vespignani
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases16(7), e0010565 (2022)
Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi
Laura Ozella, Daniela Paolotti, Guilherme Lichand, Jorge P. Rodríguez, Simon Haenni, John Phuka, Onicio Leal Neto, Ciro Cattuto
EPJ Data Science10, 46 (2021)
Systemic liquidity contagion in the European interbank market
Valentina Macchiati, Giuseppe Brandi, Tiziana Di Matteo, Daniela Paolotti, Guido Caldarelli, Giulio Cimini
Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination17, 443–474 (2021)
Self-initiated behavioral change and disease resurgence on activity-driven networks
Nicolò Gozzi, Martina Scudeler, Daniela Paolotti, Andrea Baronchelli, Nicola Perra
Physical Review E104, 014307 (2021)
Risk factors associated with the incidence of self-reported COVID-19-like illness: data from a web-based syndromic surveillance system in the Netherlands
Scott A. McDonald, Cees C. van den Wijngaard, Cornelia C. H. Wielders, Ingrid H. M. Friesema, Loes Soetens, Daniela Paolotti, Susan van den Hof, Albert Jan van Hoek
Epidemiology & Infection149, e129, 1-7 (2021)
Prediction of new scientific collaborations through multiplex networks
Marta Tuninetti, Alberto Aleta, Daniela Paolotti, Yamir Moreno, Michele Starnini
EPJ Data Science10, 25 (2021)
Integrating digital and field surveillance as complementary efforts to manage epidemic diseases of livestock: African swine fever as a case study
Michele Tizzani, Violeta Muñoz-Gómez, Marco De Nardi, Daniela Paolotti, Olga Muñoz, Piera Ceschi, Arvo Viltrop, Ilaria Capua
PLoS ONE16(12), e0252972 (2021)
Developing Real Estate Automated Valuation Models by Learning from Heterogeneous Data Sources
Francesco Bergadano, Roberto Bertilone, Daniela Paolotti, Giancarlo Ruffo
International Journal of Real Estate Studies (INTREST)15(1), 72–85 (2021)
Developing Annotated Resources for Internal Displacement Monitoring
Fabio Poletto, Yunbai Zhang, André Panisson, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Sylvain Ponserre
WWW '21: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 136–144 (2021)
Detecting adherence to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule from user-generated content in a US parenting forum
Lorenzo Betti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Laetitia Gauvin, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini
PLoS Computational Biology17(4), e1008919 (2021)
Combining Wearable Devices and Mobile Surveys to Study Child and Youth Development in Malawi: Implementation Study of a Multimodal Approach
Onicio Leal Neto, Simon Haenni, John Phuka, Laura Ozella, Daniela Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto, Daniel Robles, Guilherme Lichand
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance7(3), e23154 (2021)
Clandestino or Rifugiato? Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti
CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems179, 1-15 (2021)
Are People Optimistically Biased about the Risk of COVID-19 infection? Lessons from the first wave of the pandemic in Europe
Kathleen McColl, Marion Debin, Cecile Souty, Caroline Guerrisi, Clément Turbelin, Alessandra Falchi, Isabelle Bonmarin, Daniela Paolotti, Chinelo Obi, Jim Duggan, Yamir Moreno, Ania Wisniak, Antoine Flahault, Thierry Blanchon, Vittoria Colizza, Jocelyn Raude
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health19 (1), 436 (2021)
Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media: Italy as a Case Study
Alessandra Urbinati, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andrea Bonanomi, Alessandro Rosina, Ciro Cattuto, Daniela Paolotti
Proceeding SocInfo 2020: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series12467, 380-396 (2020)
Towards a data-driven characterization of behavioral changes induced by the seasonal flu
Nicolò Gozzi, Daniela Perrotta, Daniela Paolotti, Nicola Perra
PLoS Computational Biology16(5), e1007879 (2020)
The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic
Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto
PloS Computational Biology16(3), e1007633 (2020)
Spatial heterogeneity and socioeconomic determinants of opioid prescribing in England between 2015 and 2018
Rossano Schifanella, Dario Delle Vedove, Alberto Salomone, Paolo Bajardi, Daniela Paolotti
BMC Medicine18, 127 (2020)
News and the city: understanding online press consumption patterns through mobile data
Salvatore Vilella, Daniela Paolotti, Giancarlo Ruffo, Leonardo Adrian Ferres
EPJ Data Science9, 10 (2020)
Link prediction in multiplex networks via triadic closure
Alberto Aleta, Marta Tuninetti, Daniela Paolotti, Yamir Moreno, Michele Starnini
Physical Review Research2(4), 042029(R) (2020)
Immigration as a Divisive Topic: Clusters and Content Diffusion in the Italian Twitter Debate
Salvatore Vilella, Mirko Lai, Daniela Paolotti, Giancarlo Ruffo
Future Internet12 (10), 173, (2020)
Grippenet: A New Tool for the Monitoring, Risk-Factor and Vaccination Coverage Analysis of Influenza-Like Illness in Switzerland
Aude Richard, Laura Müller, Ania Wisniak, Amaury Thiabaud, Thibaut Merle, Damien Dietrich, Daniela Paolotti, Emilien Jeannot, Antoine Flahault
Vaccines8(3), 343 (2020)
Falling into the Echo Chamber: The Italian Vaccination Debate on Twitter
Alessandro Cossard, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media14(1), 130-140 (2020)
Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy
Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti
Proceeding SocInfo 2020: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series12467, 43-57 (2020)
Collective Response to Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Reddit and Wikipedia: Mixed-Methods Analysis
Nicolò Gozzi, Michele Tizzani, Michele Starnini, Fabio Ciulla, Daniela Paolotti, André Panisson, Nicola Perra
Journal of Medical Internet Research22(10), e21597 (2020)
A computational framework for modeling and studying pertussis epidemiology and vaccination
Paolo Castagno, Simone Pernice, Gianni Ghetti, Massimiliano Povero, Lorenzo Prandelli, Daniela Paolotti, Gianfranco Balbo, Matteo Sereno, Marco Beccuti
BMC Bioinformatics21(8), 344 (2020)
grippeNET App: Enhancing Participatory Influenza Monitoring Through Mobile Phone Sensors
Marco Hirsch, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Daniela Paolotti, Antoine Flahault, Paul Lukowicz
UbiComp '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers 833–841 (2018)
Towards a global impact-based forecasting model for tropical cyclones
Mersedeh Kooshki Forooshani, Marc van den Homberg, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova, Leonardo Milano, Pauline Ndirangu, Daniela Paolotti, Aklilu Teklesadik, Monica L. Turner
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences24(1), 309–329 (2024)
Research ethics and artificial intelligence for global health: perspectives from the global forum on bioethics in research
James Shaw, Joseph Ali, Caesar A. Atuire, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Armando Guio Español, Judy Wawira Gichoya, Adrienne Hunt, Daudi Jjingo, Katherine Littler, Daniela Paolotti, Effy Vayena
BMC Medical Ethics25, 46 (2024)
Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Michele Tizzani
Scientific Reports 14, 4397 (2024)
Projects
VERDI
VERDI – SARS-coV2 variants Evaluation in pRegnancy and paeDIatrics cohorts
RespiCast
European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub (RespiCast)
InfluCast
Influcast forecasts the evolution of influenza-like-illnesses by aggregating predictions from multiple models
ESCAPE
Pandemic Preparedness and Response
CANP – Casa Nel Parco
CANP will investigate and devise advanced analytics and artificial intelligence techniques on top the development of an integrated ICT platform to harmonise data collection from heterogeneous sources ranging from medical IoT sensors and behavioural data to electronic health records.
PANDEM-2
Pandemic Preparedness and Response