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Michele Tizzoni
Senior Research Scientist
Senior Research Scientist
Fields Of StudyInfectious disease epidemiology, mathematical modeling, network theory
Publications
Generalized contact matrices allow integrating socioeconomic variables into epidemic models
Adriana Manna, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Michele Tizzoni, Márton Karsai, Nicola Perra
Science Advances10, 41, (2024)
Estimating household contact matrices structure from easily collectable metadata
Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Jackie Kleynhans, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Laura Ozella, Mvuyo Makhasi, Nicole Wolter, Brigitte Language, , Cheryl Cohen, Stefano Tempia, Ciro Cattuto
PLoS ONE19(3), e0296810 (2024)
The limits of human mobility traces to predict the spread of COVID-19: a transfer entropy approach
Federico Delussu, Michele Tizzoni, Laetitia Gauvin
PNAS Nexus2, 10, 1-13 (2023)
Association of close-range contact patterns with SARS-CoV-2: a household transmission study
Jackie Kleynhans, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Lucia Maloma, Sibongile Walaza, Neil A Martinson, Anne von Gottberg, Nicole Wolter, Mvuyo Makhasi, Cheryl Cohen, Ciro Cattuto, Stefano Tempia,
eLife12, e84753, 1-26 (2023)
On the forecastability of food insecurity
Pietro Foini, Michele Tizzoni, Giulia Martini, Daniela Paolotti, Elisa Omodei
Scientific Reports13, 2793 (2023)
Mapping urban socioeconomic inequalities in developing countries through Facebook advertising data
Simone Piaggesi, Serena Giurgola, Márton Karsai, Yelena Mejova, André Panisson, Michele Tizzoni
Frontiers in Big Data5, 1006352 (2022)
Data-driven micromobility network planning for demand and safety
Pietro Folco, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Michael Szell
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science50(8), 1-16 (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)
Evidence of pandemic fatigue associated with stricter tiered COVID-19 restrictions
Federico Delussu, Michele Tizzoni, Laetitia Gauvin
PLoS Digital Health1(5), e0000035 (2022)
Addressing the socioeconomic divide in computational modeling for infectious diseases
Michele Tizzoni, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Laetitia Gauvin, Márton Karsai, Nicola Perra, Shweta Bansal
Nature Communication13, 2897 (2022)
Identifying urban features for vulnerable road user safety in Europe
Marina Klanjčić, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Michael Szell
EPJ Data Science11(27), 1-15 (2022)
Complex Systems for the Most Vulnerable
Elisa Omodei , Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni
Journal of Physics: Complexity3(2), (2022)
Infodemics: A new challenge for public health
Sylvie C. Briand, Matteo Cinelli, Tim Nguyen, Rosamund Lewis, Dimitri Prybylski, Carlo M. Valensise, Vittoria Colizza, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Nicola Perra, Andrea Baronchelli, Michele Tizzoni, Fabiana Zollo, Antonio Scala, Tina Purnat, Christine Czerniak, Adam Kucharski, Akhona Tshangela, Lei Zhou, Walter Quattrociocchi
Cell184, 25, 6010-6014 (2021)
Evaluating the Impact of Meningococcal Vaccines With Synthetic Controls
Ottavia Prunas, Daniel M. Weinberger, Duccio Medini, Michele Tizzoni, Lorenzo Argante
American Journal of Epidemiology191, 4, 724–734 (2021)
Impact of data accuracy on the evaluation of COVID-19 mitigation policies
Michele Starnini, Alberto Aleta, Michele Tizzoni, Yamir Moreno
Data & Policy3, e28 (2021)
Interplay between mobility, multi-seeding and lockdowns shapes COVID-19 local impact
Mattia Mazzoli, Emanuele Pepe, David Mateo, Ciro Cattuto, Laetitia Gauvin, Paolo Bajardi, Michele Tizzoni, Alberto Hernando, Sandro Meloni, José J. Ramasco
PLoS Computational Biology17(10), e1009326 (2021)
Socio-economic determinants of mobility responses during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy: from provinces to neighbourhoods
Laetitia Gauvin, Paolo Bajardi, Emanuele Pepe, Brennan Lake, Filippo Privitera, Michele Tizzoni
Journal of the Royal Society Interface18, 20210092 (2021)
Early social distancing policies in Europe, changes in mobility & COVID-19 case trajectories: Insights from Spring 2020
Liana R. Woskie, Jonathan Hennessy, Valeria Espinosa, Thomas C. Tsai, Swapnil Vispute, Benjamin H. Jacobson, Ciro Cattuto, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Alex Fabrikant, Krishna Gadepalli, Adam Boulanger, Adam Pearce, Chaitanya Kamath, Arran Schlosberg, Charlotte Stanton, Shailesh Bavadekar, Matthew Abueg, Michael Hogue, Andrew Oplinger, Katherine Chou, Greg Corrado, Tomer Shekel, Ashish K. Jha, Gregory A. Wellenius, Evgeniy Gabrilovich
PLoS ONE16(6), e0253071 (2021)
Estimating the effect of social inequalities on the mitigation of COVID-19 across communities in Santiago de Chile
Nicolò Gozzi, Michele Tizzoni, Matteo Chinazzi, Leonardo Adrian Ferres, Alessandro Vespignani, Nicola Perra
Nature Communications12, 2429 (2021)
The Framing of COVID-19 in Italian Media and Its Relationship with Community Mobility: A Mixed-Method Approach
Yotam Ophir, Dror Walter, Daniel Arnon, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Michele Tizzoni, Joëlle Carota, Lorenzo D'Antiga, Emanuele Nicastro
Journal of Health Communication26, 3, 161-173 (2021)
COVID-19 outbreak response, a dataset to assess mobility changes in Italy following national lockdown
Emanuele Pepe, Paolo Bajardi, Laetitia Gauvin, Filippo Privitera, Brennan Lake, Ciro Cattuto, Michele Tizzoni
Scientific Data7, 230 (2020)
Gender gaps in urban mobility
Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Simone Piaggesi, Andrew Young, Natalia Adler, Stefaan G. Verhulst, Leonardo Adrian Ferres, Ciro Cattuto
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications7, 11 (2020)
Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle
Nuria Oliver, Bruno Lepri, Harald Sterly, Renaud Lambiotte, Sébastien Delataille, Marco De Nadai, Emmanuel Letouzé, Albert Ali Salah, Richard Benjamins, Ciro Cattuto, Vittoria Colizza, Nicolas De Cordes, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Till Koebe, Sune Lehmann, Juan Murillo, Alex Pentland, Phuong N Pham, Frédéric Pivetta, Jari Saramäki, Samuel V. Scarpino, Michele Tizzoni, Stefaan G. Verhulst, Patrick Vinck
Science Advances6, 23, (2020)
Facebook Ads as a Demographic Tool to Measure the Urban-Rural Divide
Daniele Rama, Yelena Mejova, Michele Tizzoni, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ingmar Weber
WWW '20: Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 327-338 (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)
Predicting City Poverty Using Satellite Imagery
Simone Piaggesi, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Ciro Cattuto, Natalia Adler, Stefaan G. Verhulst, Andrew Young, Rhiannan Price, Leonardo Adrian Ferres, André Panisson
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops 90-96 (2019)
High-resolution contact networks of free-ranging domestic dogs Canis familiaris and implications for transmission of infection
Jared K. Wilson-Aggarwal, Laura Ozella, Michele Tizzoni, Ciro Cattuto, George J. F. Swan, Tchonfienet Moundai, Matthew J. Silk, James A. Zingeser, Robbie A. McDonald
Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases13(7), e0007565 (2019)
Wearable Proximity Sensors for Monitoring a Mass Casualty Incident Exercise: Feasibility Study
Laura Ozella, Laetitia Gauvin, Luca Carenzo, Marco Quaggiotto, Pier Luigi Ingrassia, Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, Davide Colombo, Anna Sapienza, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Francesco Della Corte, Ciro Cattuto
Journal of Medical Internet Research21(4) , e12251 (2019)
How Search Engine Data Enhance the Understanding of Determinants of Suicide in India and Inform Prevention: Observational Study
Natalia Adler, Ciro Cattuto, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Stefaan G. Verhulst, Elad Yom-Tov, Andrew Young
Journal of Medical Internet Research21(1), e10179 (2019)
Close encounters between infants and household members measured through wearable proximity sensors
Laura Ozella, Francesco Gesualdo, Michele Tizzoni, Caterina Rizzo, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Ilaria Campagna, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi, Ciro Cattuto
PLoS ONE13(6), e0198733 (2018)
Combining Participatory Influenza Surveillance with Modeling and Forecasting: Three Alternative Approaches
John S. Brownstein, Chu Shuyu, Achla Marathe, Madhav V Marathe, Andre T Nguyen, Daniela Paolotti, Nicola Perra, Daniela Perrotta, Mauricio Santillana, Samarth Swarup, Michele Tizzoni, Alessandro Vespignani, Anil Kumar Vullikanti, Mandi L Wilson, Qian Zhang
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance3(4), e83 (2017)
Assessing the use of mobile phone data to describe recurrent mobility patterns in spatial epidemic models
Cecilia Panigutti, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Zbigniew Smoreda, Vittoria Colizza
Royal Society Open Science4, 160950 (2017)
Forecasting Seasonal Influenza Fusing Digital Indicators and a Mechanistic Disease Model
Qian Zhang, Nicola Perra, Daniela Perrotta, Michele Tizzoni, Daniela Paolotti, Alessandro Vespignani
WWW '17: Proceeding of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) 311-319 (2017)
Using Participatory Web-based Surveillance Data to Improve Seasonal Influenza Forecasting in Italy
Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Daniela Perrotta
Proceeding of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) 303 (2017)
Predicting human mobility through the assimilation of social media traces into mobility models
Mariano Gastón Beiró, André Panisson, Michele Tizzoni, Ciro Cattuto
EPJ Data Science5, 30 (2016)
Estimate of Novel Influenza A/H1N1 cases in Mexico at the early stage of the pandemic with a spatially structured epidemic model
Alessandro Vespignani, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, Bruno Gonçalves, Wouter Van den Broeck, Nicola Perra, Duygu Balcan, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco
Public Library of Science Currents: Influenza.RRN1129, (2009)
Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility
Alessandro Vespignani, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, Bruno Gonçalves, Wouter Van den Broeck, Nicola Perra, Duygu Balcan, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco
BMC Medicine7:45, (2009)
Fast and accurate dynamic estimation of field effectiveness of meningococcal vaccines
Lorenzo Argante, Michele Tizzoni, Duccio Medini
BMC Medicine14, 98 (2016)
Quantifying social contacts in a household setting of rural Kenya using wearable proximity sensors
Moses Chapa Kiti, Michele Tizzoni, Timothy M. Kinyanjui, Dorothy C. Koech, Patrick K. Munywoki, Milosch Meriac, Luca Cappa, André Panisson, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, David James Nokes
EPJ Data Science5, 21 (2016)
The Scaling of Human Contacts and Epidemic Processes in Metapopulation Networks
Michele Tizzoni, Kaiyuan Sun, Diego Benusiglio, Márton Karsai, Nicola Perra
Scientific Reports5/15111, (2015)
Social Data Mining and Seasonal Influenza Forecasts: The FluOutlook Platform
Qian Zhang, Corrado Gioannini, Daniela Paolotti, Nicola Perra, Daniela Perrotta, Marco Quaggiotto, Michele Tizzoni, Alessandro Vespignani
Springer, Cham9286, 237-240 (2015)
Unveiling patterns of international communities in a global city using mobile phone data
André Panisson, Matteo Delfino, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Giovanni Petri
EPJ Data Science4:3, (2015)
On the Use of Human Mobility Proxies for Modeling Epidemics
Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Adeline Decuyper, Guillaume Kon Kam King, Christian M. Schneider, Vincent Blondel, Zbigniew Smoreda, Marta C. González, Vittoria Colizza
PLoS Computational Biology10(7), e1003716 (2014)
Modeling the critical care demand and antibiotics resources needed during the Fall 2009 wave of influenza A(H1N1) pandemic
Alessandro Vespignani, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, Bruno Gonçalves, Wouter Van den Broeck, Nicola Perra, A.J. Valleron, C. Chouaid, Duygu Balcan, A.C. Singer, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco
PLoS Current Influenza1133, (2009)
Human mobility and time spent at destination: impact on spatial epidemic spread
Michele Tizzoni, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto
Journal of Theoretical Biology338, 41-58 (2013)
Modeling vaccination campaigns and the Fall/Winter 2009 activity of the new A(H1N1) influenza in the Northern Hemisphere
Alessandro Vespignani, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, Bruno Gonçalves, Wouter Van den Broeck, Nicola Perra, Duygu Balcan, H. Hu, José J. Ramasco
Emerging Health Threats Journal2:e11, (2009)
Human Mobility Networks, Travel Restrictions, and the Global Spread of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
Alessandro Vespignani, Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Vittoria Colizza, Chiara Poletto, José J. Ramasco
PLoS ONE6(1): e16591, (2011)
Real-time numerical forecast of global epidemic spreading: case study of 2009 A/H1N1pdm
Michele Tizzoni, Paolo Bajardi, Chiara Poletto, José J. Ramasco, Duygu Balcan, Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra, Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani
BMC Medicine10, 165 (2012)
Heterogeneous length of stay of hosts’ movements and spatial epidemic spread
Chiara Poletto, Michele Tizzoni, Vittoria Colizza
Scientific Reports2, 476 (2012)
Generalized contact matrices allow integrating socioeconomic variables into epidemic models
Adriana Manna, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Michele Tizzoni, Márton Karsai, Nicola Perra
Science Advances10, 41, (2024)
Estimating household contact matrices structure from easily collectable metadata
Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Jackie Kleynhans, Laetitia Gauvin, Michele Tizzoni, Laura Ozella, Mvuyo Makhasi, Nicole Wolter, Brigitte Language, , Cheryl Cohen, Stefano Tempia, Ciro Cattuto
PLoS ONE19(3), e0296810 (2024)
The limits of human mobility traces to predict the spread of COVID-19: a transfer entropy approach
Federico Delussu, Michele Tizzoni, Laetitia Gauvin
PNAS Nexus2, 10, 1-13 (2023)
Projects
Social ComQuant
Digitalization of society characterizes the twenty-first century in many aspects of social, political and cultural life.

Data Interfaces
Data Interfaces aims to experiment with the development of interfaces and formats for data rich scenarios by merging the competences of communication design, complex systems science, and computer science.