Roberta Sinatra is full professor at the University of Copenhagen, and holds visiting positions at IT University of Copenhagen, ISI (Turin, Italy) and the Complexity Science Hub (Vienna, Austria). Her research is at the forefront of network science, data science and computational social science. Currently, she spends particular attention on the analysis and modeling of dynamics that lead to the collective phenomenon of success, with focus on science and art.

Roberta completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in physics at the University of Catania, Italy, and was first a postdoctoral fellow, then a research faculty at the Center for Complex Network Research of Northeastern University (Boston MA, USA). Her research has been published in general audience journals such as Nature and Science, and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist, The Guardian, The Washington Post among other major media outlets.