Bio
Dr. Gianluca Manzo is Professor of Sociology at Sorbonne University. He is a fellow of the European Academy of Sociology, and the editor of L’Année sociologique. He serves as president of the RC45 “Micro-Macro Modelling” of the International Sociological Association; he served as chair of the section “Decision-making, Networks, and Society” of the American Sociological Association, and as vice-president of the International Network of Analytical Sociology. He applies computational models and social network analysis to the study of social stratification and diffusion dynamics. He is the author of La spirale des inégalités (PUPS, 2009) and of Agent-based Models and Causal Inference (Wiley, 2022). He also edited Analytical Sociology: Actions and Networks (Wiley, 2014), the Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology (Edward Elgar, 2021), Boudon Reexamined: Nuts and Bolts for Contemporary Sociological Science (SUP, 2025).