Daniele Durante has been awarded a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council for the NEMESIS project. NEMESIS (Sociogenesis of Criminal Networks: Reconstruction, Discovery, and Disruption) aims to investigate the intricate networks of interconnections and interactions among criminals. These networks can be reconstructed from judicial records using cutting-edge statistical models and methods.

Durante's project represents an ideal example of Data Science, combining modern theories from Criminology and Social Sciences, rigorous and innovative methodology from Statistics, and efficient computational techniques to address the fundamental challenges in the study of criminal networks.