Sara Venturini (she/her) is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MOBS Lab. Prior to this, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Senseable City Lab. She earned a Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics in 2023 from the University of Padova, where she started her academic career with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Mathematics. In 2022, she won a fellowship within the AccelNet-MultiNet program, enabling her to visit Indiana University in Bloomington. Currently, she is interested in combining her computational and applied mathematics background with her passion for complex networks in real-world social science applications. Sara’s current research interests include higher-order networks, optimization methods, machine learning, and the science of science.