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      SocioPatterns is an <strong>interdisciplinary, international research collaboration</strong> that measures and studies <strong>human and animal proximity networks</strong> using <strong>wearable devices</strong> and wireless sensor networks. We apply methods from data science, network science, and machine learning to investigate problems in the epidemiology of infectious diseases, computational epidemiology, social network analysis, computational social science, and beyond. From schools and hospitals to museums, social gatherings, and households, we collect data across <strong>a wide range of real-world environments</strong>. Over the last 15+ years, our <strong>open data</strong> has enabled thousands of studies.
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      The collaboration was originally created in 2008 by <a href="https://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~barrat/english.html" target="_blank">Alain&nbsp;Barrat</a> (<a href="https://www.cnrs.fr/en" target="_blank">CNRS</a> and <a href="https://www.univ-amu.fr/" target="_blank">Aix-Marseille University</a>, then also at ISI Foundation), <a href="https://www.cirocattuto.info" target="_blank">Ciro&nbsp;Cattuto</a> (<a href="https://www.isi.it" target="_blank">ISI Foundation</a>), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/milosch/" target="_blank">Milosch Meriac</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brita-meriac/" target="_blank">Brita Meriac</a> (then at <a href="https://www.bitmanufaktur.de/" target="_blank">Bitmanufaktur</a>), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-françois-pinton-9843249b/" target="_blank">Jean-François Pinton</a> (then at <a href="https://www.ens-lyon.fr/en/" target="_blank">École Normale Supérieure de Lyon</a>), <a href="https://dipartimentodesign.polimi.it/it/personale/marco.quaggiotto" target="_blank">Marco Quaggiotto</a> (<a href="https://dipartimentodesign.polimi.it/en" target="_blank>">Politecnico di Milano</a> and ISI Foundation), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/woutervandenbroeck/" target="_blank">Wouter Van den Broeck</a> (then at <a href="https://www.isi.it" target="_blank">ISI Foundation</a>). The technology stack development is led at <a href="https://www.isi.it">ISI Foundation</a>.
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      You can contact us at <a href="mailto:info@sociopatterns.org">info@sociopatterns.org</a>.
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    <h2>Collaboration Members</h2>
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      Since 2008, many researchers and students have contributed to the SocioPatterns collaboration. We are grateful to all of them and to their institutions for the development and scientific impact of the project. Below is an incomplete list of current and past members of the collaboration.
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      <li><strong>ISI Foundation:</strong> <u>Ciro&nbsp;Cattuto</u>, Vittoria Colizza, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Edoardo Galimberti, Laetitia Gauvin, Valerio Gemmetto, Lorenzo Isella, Andrea Martini, André Panisson, Laura Ozella, Marco Quaggiotto, Jorge P. Rodríguez, Anna Sapienza, Michele Starnini, Michele Tizzoni, Alessandro Vespignani</li>
      <li><strong>CNRS and Aix-Marseille University:</strong> <u>Alain&nbsp;Barrat</u>, Giulia Cencetti, Diego Contreras, Julie Fournet, Valeria Gelardi, Mathieu Génois, Didier Le Bail, Anna Machens, Marco
        Mancastroppa, Rossana Mastrandrea, Juliette Stehlé, Christian Vestergaard</li>
      <li><strong>Collaborators:</strong> Marco Ajelli, Harith Alani, Martin Atzmueller, Nicolas Banholzer, Pierre Borgnat, Constanze Ciavarella, Cheryl Cohen, Gianluca Correndo, Darren P. Croft, Francesco Della Corte, Lukas Fenner, Francesco Gesualdo, Moses C. Kiti, Jackie Kleynhans, Onicio Leal-Neto, Guilherme Lichand, Mvuyo Makhasi, 
        Stefano Merler, Robbie A. McDonald, Kavous S. Niksirat, James D. Nokes, Mizuki Oka, Caterina Rizzo, Koya Sato, Timo Smieszek, Gerd Stumme, Martin Szomszor, Stefano Tempia, Nicolò Tomaselli, Carmela Troncoso, Alberto E. Tozzi, Mark C. Pachucki, Philippe Vanhems, Nicolas Voirin, Peter J. White, Jared Wilson-Aggarwal, Joseph T. Wu</li>
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