Peer-reviewed publications

Models for emergent structures in mobility: specification and individual-level interpretation
M Hoffman & P Block
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2026

Dyadic Isolation in Social Interactions: The Role of Depressive Symptoms
M Hoffman, C Stadtfeld, T Elmer
Social Psychology Quaterly, 2025

Social and spatial predictors of collective search behaviors
M Hoffman, T Thrash, C Hölscher, M Kapadia, VR Schinazi
Scientific Reports, 2025

Antecedents of student team formation in higher education
CA de Matos Fernandes, M Hoffman & J Brouwer
Learning and Instruction, 2024

The role of selection in socioeconomic homophily: Evidence from an adolescent summer camp
M Hoffman & T Chabot
Social Networks, 2023

Modeling partitions of individuals
M Hoffman, P Block, TAB Snijders
Sociological Methodology, 2023

The Swiss StudentLife Study: Codebook
T Elmer, K Mepham, M Hoffman, Z Boda, IJ Raabe, A Vörös & C Stadtfeld
PsyArXiv, 2022 [not peer-reviewed]

The Swiss StudentLife Study: Investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data
A Vörös, Z Boda, T Elmer, M Hoffman, K Mepham, IJ Raabe & C Stadtfeld
Social Networks, 2021

Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world
P Block, M Hoffman, IJ Raabe, JB Dowd, C Rahal, R Kashyap & MC Mills
Nature Human Behaviour, 2020

A model for the dynamics of face-to-face interactions in social groups
M Hoffman, P Block, T Elmer & C Stadtfeld
Network Science, 2020

Social network analysis of DFAB house: a demonstrator of digital fabrication in construction
K Graser, Y Wang, M Hoffman, MM Bonanomi, M Kohler & D Hall
Proceedings of EPOC, 2019


Conference presentations

Micro-level interpretation of statistical models for social groups – A game theoretical approach
M Hoffman, P Bayer, M Keijzer, V Amati
19th Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology, Oxford, UK, 2026, Jul 1-3

Modeling emergent structures in mobility networks
M Hoffman, P Block, C Noack
45th Sunbelt Conference, Paris, France 2025, Jun 23-28

Modeling emergent structures in mobility networks
M Hoffman, P Block, C Noack
Atelier Réseaux Sociaux du Labex SMS, Toulouse, France 2025, Jun 19

An agent-based interpretation of exponential family models for graphs and partitions
M Hoffman
Workshop on Empirically-Calibrated Agent-Based Models for Mechanism-Based Research, Toulouse, France, 2024, Dec 11-13

Modeling the mechanisms driving the co-constitution of groups and individuals at the Commercial Court of Paris
M Hoffman & E Lazega
44th Sunbelt Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 2024, Jun 24-30

From movement comes stability: Modeling the mechanisms driving the co-constitution of groups and individuals at the Commercial Court of Paris
M Hoffman & E Lazega
Duality Workshop, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2024, Apr 15-18

Specifying attribute effects in statistical models for groups – A game theoretical approach
M Hoffman, P Bayer, M Keijzer, V Amati
ARS’23 Ninth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis, Naples, Italy, 2023, May 2-3

Specification of attribute effects in statistical models for social groups
M Hoffman
6th European Conference on Social Networks, Greenwich, UK,2022, Sep 12-16

Dynamics of group-based meetings amongst teenagers
M Hoffman & T Chabot
RC33 conference, online, 2021, Sep 7-10

The Role of Preference-Based Selection in Socioeconomic Homophily: Evidence from a Three-Week Summer Camp
M Hoffman & T Chabot
6th European Conference on Social Networks, online, 2021, Sep 6-10

Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world
P Block, M Hoffman, IJ Raabe, JB Dowd, C Rahal, R Kashyap, MC Mills
Costnet Conference on Covid-19, Munich, Germany, 2020, Jul 10

From dyads to groups: A partition model for non-overlapping groups
M Hoffman, P Block, TAB Snijders
40th Sunbelt Conference, Paris, France (online), 2020, Jul 13-17

A partition model for membership of non-overlapping groups
M Hoffman, P Block, TAB Snijders
4th European Conference on Social Networks, Zürich, Switzerland, 2019, Sep 9-12

DyNAM-i: a statistical model for the analysis of face-to-face interactions
M Hoffman, P Block P, T Elmer, C Stadtfeld
7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Cambridge, UK, 2018, Dec 11-13

A statistical model for the analysis of face-to-face interactions
M Hoffman, P Block, T Elmer, C Stadtfeld
38th Sunbelt Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2018, Jun 26 - Jul 1


Invited talks

The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar, Linköping University, Sweden (2026 Apr 16)

Statistics seminar series, jointly hosted by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, Ireland (2025 Dec 4)

Statistic Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, online (2025 Sep 12)

Statistics Seminar, University of New South Wales, Australia (2024 Nov 25)

Satellite Symposium “Statistical Inference for Network Models”, NetSci 2023 Conference in Vienna, Austria (2023 July 11)

Statistics seminar, University of Kent, online (2023 Mar 16)

Séminaire Savoir, réseaux, et médiation, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France (2023 Jan 27)

Mathematics and Statistics seminar, Toulouse School of Economics, France (2022 Dec 8)

Symposium on Social network and demographic models, CEFE-CNRS, University of Montpellier, France (2022 Oct 10-11)

Mitchell Center Seminar, University of Manchester, UK (2022 Feb 23)

Invited talk at the Costnet Conference on Covid-19, online (2020 Jul 10)

Seminar of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, UK (2020 Mar 11)

Sociology Colloquium, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2019 Nov 27)