SUNLab collaborates with universities and research groups around the world to study how human behavior, networks, and urban systems shape inequality, resilience, health, and the future of work.
We welcome academic collaborations in several formats:
Visiting scholars
We host visiting PhD students, postdocs, and faculty who wish to:
- Spend time embedded in the lab at Northeastern’s Network Science Institute (NetSI)
- Work with our datasets, tools, and methods on joint projects
- Develop or extend collaborations around SUNLab’s core themes
Visits can range from short stays (a few weeks) to longer sabbaticals, depending on mutual interest and funding.
Joint research projects
We are interested in co-developing projects that:
- Combine local data and expertise from partner institutions with our methods for analyzing mobility, networks, and inequality
- Extend SUNLab projects (e.g., experienced inequality, dependency networks, mobility data foundations, labor resilience, urban epidemics, or mobile food environments) to new cities, countries, or domains
- Build new analytic or visualization tools that can be shared with broader communities
Collaborations can involve shared grants, co-supervised students, or distributed teams working across institutions.
Workshops and interdisciplinary initiatives
We also collaborate on:
- Workshops and seminars on urban science, network science, computational social science, and related topics
- Interdisciplinary initiatives that bring together researchers from different departments (e.g., engineering, public health, economics, design, and computing) to work on urban challenges
- Training activities (short courses, tutorials, summer schools) focused on methods for working with large-scale behavioral and urban data
If you are interested in any of the above, or have a related idea, we’d be happy to discuss it.
Get in touch
To explore an academic collaboration with SUNLab, please email Esteban Moro (Director of SUNLab) at e.moroegido@northeastern.edu with:
- A short description of your institution and team
- The type of collaboration you are interested in (visiting scholar, joint project, workshop, etc.)
- Any relevant timelines or funding constraints
You can learn more about our work at socialurban.net and about Northeastern’s Network Science Institute (NetSI) at networkscienceinstitute.org.