Biography
Hanlin is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Granada, Spain, hosted by Prof. Miguel Ángel Muñoz, where he builds a network model for the mechanisms of epilepsy dynamics. He works on dynamic processes on networks and higher-order networks, percolation and critical phenomena, inference and optimization on networks, and interdisciplinary problems connecting network science, statistical physics, quantum networks, and neuroscience.
Hanlin holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. During his PhD at Queen Mary University of London, he worked on network theory. His research focuses on several aspects of dynamic processes on networks and other structures with higher-order interactions, such as simplicial complexes and hypergraphs, under the supervision of Prof. Ginestra Bianconi.
From 2023 to 2026 he was a WINQ Research Fellow at Nordita, Stockholm, and in 2024 a visiting AccelNet/MultiNet Fellow at Indiana University with Prof. Filippo Radicchi.
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- Percolation theory
- Message-passing algorithm
- Hypergraphs and simplicial complexes
- Epidemic spreading
- Statistical Physics
- Inference and Optimization on networks
- Multilayer networks
- Quantum networks
PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2023
Queen Mary University of London, UK
BSc in Physics, 2019
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Visiting student, 2018
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Visiting student, 2018
Aston University, UK
News
- 2026/09 I joined the University of Granada as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, hosted by Prof. Miguel Ángel Muñoz.
- 2026/08 New preprint: Criticality and universality in network dismantling.
- 2026/04 Our roadmap paper Hypergraphs and simplicial complexes in focus: A roadmap for future research in higher-order interactions is published in Journal of Physics: Complexity.
- 2026/02 Our paper Triadic percolation on multilayer networks is selected as Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review E.
- 2026/01 Our paper Triadic percolation on multilayer networks is published in Physical Review E.
- 2026/01 Our paper Shortest-path percolation on scale-free networks is published in Physical Review E.
- 2025/02 I was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship.
- 2025/02 Our paper Unveiling the importance of nonshortest paths in quantum networks is published in Science Advances.
- 2025/02 Our perspective article Topology shapes dynamics of higher-order networks is published in Nature Physics.
- 2025/02 I started serving as a Board Member of the Network Science Society.
Experience
Selected Publications
- Competition, Collaboration, and Optimization in Multiple Interacting Spreading Processes, Physical Review X, 2021 — H. Sun†, D. Saad, A. Y. Lokhov
- The dynamic nature of percolation on networks with triadic interactions, Nature Communications, 2023 — H. Sun, F. Radicchi, J. Kurths, G. Bianconi
- Topology shapes dynamics of higher-order networks, Nature Physics, 2025 — A. P. Millán, H. Sun, L. Giambagli, R. Muolo, T. Carletti, J. J. Torres, F. Radicchi, J. Kurths, G. Bianconi
- Unveiling the importance of nonshortest paths in quantum networks, Science Advances, 2025 — X. Hu, G. Dong, K. Christensen, H. Sun, J. Fan, Z. Tian, J. Gao, S. Havlin, R. Lambiotte, X. Meng
- Universal nonlinear infection kernel from heterogeneous exposure on higher-order networks, Physical Review Letters, 2021 — G. St-Onge, H. Sun, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, G. Bianconi
- Triadic percolation on multilayer networks, Physical Review E, 2026 — H. Sun†, F. Radicchi, G. Bianconi (Editors' Suggestion)