The Landry Lab at the University of Virginia studies how the structure of networks and groups affect the spread of diseases, information, and ideology. We seek to answer questions like, How do groups change the way that information and diseases spread? How does the size of a group change the probability that its members will change their minds? How do groups form? Can we effectively mitigate diseases if we understand the underlying connection patterns? We use tools from network science, mathematical modeling, Bayesian inference, and open-source development to help answer these questions.
Open positions
We are recruiting the following positions:
Graduate Students: Graduate students will have considerable latitude to choose courses and a research project that interests them. Reach out with any questions!
Recent News
- May 2025: The Landry Lab received a Small Data Analytics Resource Award from the Data Analytics Center at UVA for the project titled “Analyzing large-scale social networks through the Bluesky social media platform”.
- May 2025: “Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem” is now published in npj Complexity!
- April 2025: Andy Grieve was awarded an EXPAND fellowship to be co-advised by Prof. Landry (with primary advisor Prof. Katja Kasimatis) to incorporate modeling into his research on sexual conflict and co-evolution. Congratulations, Andy!
- April 2025: Charlotte Greene was awarded an EXPAND fellowship to be co-advised by Prof. Landry (with primary advisor Prof. Butch Brodie) to integrate network methods to phenotype aggression and quantify behavior. Congratulations, Charlotte!
- April 2025: Prof. Landry was an invited panelist at the Social Contagions, Artificial Intelligence, and Democracy Workshop at UVA.
- March 2025: Abhay Gupta joining the Landry Lab in August 2025! Welcome, Abhay!
- January 2025: Prof. Landry is now a courtesy faculty member in the School of Data Science! This will foster many exciting cross-school collaborations.
- December 2024: We have a new member joining the Landry Lab! Daniel Kaiser will be joining us as a postdoc starting August 2025! Welcome, Daniel!
- December 2024: New preprint on the structure of effective governance is now posted!
- October 2024: The first publication for the Landry Lab is published in Physical Review E!