Mikaela Fudolig

Mikaela Irene Dimaano Fudolig (born 1990 or 1991) is a Filipino physicist and former child prodigy. In 2007, she earned her bachelor's degree in physics at the age of 16 as valedictorian of the University of the Philippines Diliman. She then pursued an academic career, initially at UP Diliman and Ateneo de Manila University, before moving to South Korea, the United States, and Australia. As of the 2020s, she specializes in computational social science.

Life and career Fudolig was a sophomore at Quezon City Science High School before being pulled into the experimental Early College Placement Program (ECPP). At the age of 11, she began her university education at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman). She was admitted without a high school diploma and without taking the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT). In 2016, she was admitted to the University of the Philippines College of Law. By 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the field of computational social science at the University of Vermont (UVM). At UVM, she worked with her supervisors Chris Danforth and Peter Dodds. As of 2025, she is a lecturer at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Adelaide University in Australia.

Selected publications

Fudolig, M. I. D. & Esguerra, J. P. H. (2014). Analytic treatment of consensus achievement in the single-type zealotry voter model. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 413: 626–634. Fudolig, M. I. D.; Monsivais, D.; Bhattacharya, K.; Jo, H. H. & Kaski, K. (2019). Different patterns of social closeness observed in mobile phone communication. Journal of Computational Social Science. 3 (1): 1–17. doi: 10.1007/s42001-019-00054-8 Fudolig, M. I. D.; Bhattacharya, K.; Monsivais, D.; Jo, H. H. & Kaski, K. (2020). Link-centric analysis of variation by demographics in mobile phone communication patterns. PLoS ONE. 15(1): e0227037. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227037 Fudolig, M. I., Alshaabi, T., Arnold, M. V., Danforth, C. M., & Dodds, P. S. (2022). Sentiment and structure in word co-occurrence networks on Twitter. Applied Network Science, 7(1), 27. doi: 10.1007/s41109-022-00446-2 Fudolig, M. I.; Bloomfield, L. S. P.; Price, M.; Bird, Y. M.; Hidalgo, J. E.; Kim, J. N. . . . Danforth, C. M. (2024). The two fundamental shapes of sleep heart rate dynamics and their connection to mental health in college students. Digital Biomarkers, 8(1), 120-131. doi: 10.1159/000539487. PMID: 39015512