About the Authors

Chiara Poletto

chiara.poletto@isi.it

Affiliations Computational Epidemiology Laboratory, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy, INSERM, U707, Paris, France, UPMC Université Paris 06, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR S 707, Paris, France

Sandro Meloni

Affiliation Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Vittoria Colizza

Affiliations INSERM, U707, Paris, France, UPMC Université Paris 06, Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR S 707, Paris, France, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy

Yamir Moreno

Affiliations Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Alessandro Vespignani

Affiliation Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP SM VC YM AV. Performed the experiments: CP SM. Analyzed the data: CP SM. Wrote the paper: CP SM VC YM AV. Developed the model: CP SM VC YM AV.